VBA & WORD2000 - I don't see some events occuring with ActiveX Con

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John Sherry - 10 Oct 2005 16:00 GMT

Hi
I am trying to use the TextToSpeech ActiveX Contol (in Vtext.dll) in VBA in
a Word 2000 application running under Win2K.
I have inserted the ActiveX control into a UserForm.

I can get the ActiveX Control to speak text no problem, however I have to
use polling rather than event driven. I would of course prefer to use event
driven.

In the VBE I see 11 different events available, but the only two that seem
to occur are the "_Enter" and "_Exit" events.

If test the ActiveX control in the "ActiveX Control Test Container" supplied
with Visual C++, I do see some of the other events occuring eg "_Visual",
"_SpeakingStarted" and "_SpeakingDone" events.

Has anybody any ideas on what I'm doing wrong in VBA?

Many Thanks in Advance

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Word Heretic - 11 Oct 2005 01:58 GMT

G'day "John Sherry" <JohnSherry@discussions.microsoft.com>,

There are 2 ways to invoke TTS: asynch or synch. This drastically
changes the required 'event model'.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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John Sherry reckoned:

>Hi
>I am trying to use the TextToSpeech ActiveX Contol (in Vtext.dll) in VBA in
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>Many Thanks in Advance

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Brandon Jones - 11 Oct 2005 04:50 GMT

You might want to consider downloading Speech 6 (SAPI6) from Microsoft.com.
It includes an impressive and greatly simplified TTS and Speech core. The
SDK has extensive VB examples too.

> Hi
> I am trying to use the TextToSpeech ActiveX Contol (in Vtext.dll) in VBA in
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> Many Thanks in Advance

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