The Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) format is a means of creating digital talking books for people who wish to hear--and to navigate--written material presented in an audible format.
A free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF to read-along.
Dictation.io is a free dictation tool that uses your computer’s microphone and Google Speech Recognition to recognize and transcribe speech into over 100 languages, including regional variants.