I spent some time this weekend working on speechifying the NewsBlur RSS feed reader. I ran into a few issues with conflicting keyboard commands and ran into a brick wall with Chrome’s support for SpeechSynthesis… 

The code below only supports speaking article headlines. I’m still working on being able to read the article text as well…

https://gist.github.com/Cmaury/3abb0470491ef1af63d0
You can cut and paste this into the Javascript console in Chrome when visiting newsblur.com. I’ll make it into a chrome extension as soon as I make some more progress.