Today I tried out Google Translate (http://translate.google.com). It lists Chinese among the languages it translates and it's translating into Mandarin Chinese. Since only Chinese (traditional and simplified) is listed I had to type in a few words to find out which dialect of Chinese it was translating.
It also has an option for listening to the translation. It's a computer generated voice but seems to be reasonably accurate. I discovered that it has difficulty with the beginning of words. So if one puts some dummy word in front of the word you're interested in, you'll get a more accurate audio translation. I suppose Google should add a pause at the beginning of the audio or make some other fix to overcome this defect.
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