Can Microsoft word read my document back to me aloud?

[Guest]

i thought that it used be an option for Word to read your article back to you
in a synth voice. I cannot find this option anymore. Am I crazy, or did
they take away this option?

 

[Jay Freedman]

i thought that it used be an option for Word to read your article back to you
in a synth voice. I cannot find this option anymore. Am I crazy, or did
they take away this option?

For versions up to Word 2003, see
http://www.gmayor.com/word_text_to_speech.htm.

I've read that Word 2007 doesn't do text-to-speech; that feature has
been handed over to the operating system group, so now it's part of
Vista. I don't have any personal knowledge of this or how to make it
work.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Steve Yandl]

Here is a modification of something I've used in vbScript. This subroutine
should read whatever you have selected in the document to you.

Sub ReadToMe()
Set objRange = Selection.Range
strText = objRange.Text
Set objVoice = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")
objVoice.Speak strText
End Sub

Steve Yandl