For text to speech, if you have Windows, you can try my demo program:
% Program to do text to speech.
% Get user's sentence
userPrompt = 'What do you want the computer to say?';
titleBar = 'Text to Speech';
defaultString = 'Hello World! MATLAB is an awesome program!';
caUserInput = inputdlg(userPrompt, titleBar, 1, {defaultString});
if isempty(caUserInput)
return;
end; % Bail out if they clicked Cancel.
caUserInput = char(caUserInput); % Convert from cell to string.
NET.addAssembly('System.Speech');
obj = System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer;
obj.Volume = 100;
Speak(obj, caUserInput);
Also see Walter's solution: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/243672-hello-can-anyone-give-me-the-codes-for-text-to-speech-conversion-and-also-speech-recognition-thank-y#comment_344435
To get text out of a text file, you can use fileread().
