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KenV - 08 Oct 2004 18:28 GMT

I am trying to use text to speech in Woord 2003, SP2, with Windows XP SP2. I
cannot find the toolbar for text to speech anywhere either in Word or in XP.
The XP Control panel shows that the function is present and the text to
speech "test" work fine--I get the voices through my speakers.

Can someone tell me how to get to text to speech in either XP or in Word? I
do not have any third party text-speech recognition programs running or on
the computer,

Thanks very much.

Ken

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 14 Oct 2004 17:57 GMT

Hi KenV,

> I am trying to use text to speech in Woord 2003, SP2, with Windows XP SP2. I
> cannot find the toolbar for text to speech anywhere either in Word or in XP.
> The XP Control panel shows that the function is present and the text to
> speech "test" work fine--I get the voices through my speakers.

Word does not include text-to-speech functionality out-of-the box; Excel does.
Word only does dictation and menu commands.

I've heard there's an Addin you can install for Word that will give it
text-to-speech, but I don't have any details. You might try searching Google.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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OhioYooper - 19 Jan 2005 00:32 GMT

Search microsoft.public.word.newusers for "text to speech" and
"heikkila" and you'll find a posting I wrote in Nov 2003 regarding
this. It includes macro code to get Word to speak without having to
launch Excel (as the MS KB articles do). You do need to have the Text
To Speech portion of Excel installed. This installs a speech engine
that all of Office uses.

Matt

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