"How to read Chinese/Japanese/Korean"
gives you some hints on how set up Windows to read Asian languages.
Make sure you can read my name at the end of this link before you proceed.
Text-to-Speech Synthesis from Bell Lab. For example, enter my
name either in pinyin "wang2 nan2 xin1" or in GB "ÍõÄÏÐÂ", then
click the "synthesize" button.
zhongwen.com where you can click on a chinese character as you read
and find the pronounciation and translation.
The National Library of China has a large collection of page
images -- Don't they know how to use OCR? They all put you to
sleep fast. The library does not want you to download and save
its collection by forcing a reader to download and use its own
special browser. Download the browser locally (run the first file followed by the second file).