Hi,
I'm a student who is good at coding in python and I have done lot of projects related to this.
This can be done using python using pdf scrapper to scrape the words from pdf and using especially we can read out the text and we can vary factors like pitch, speed. etc..
and we can create a vb.net program for gui.
If given the task to me I will finish it with perfection and submit it to you before deadline