How is text to speech done with a document in Microsoft Word?

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I guess I just don't know how to use the help features on these Microsoft
programs. Every time I put in a topic, it never seems to understand the
slightest bit of what I asking about. I get good result only about 1% of the
time. The rest of the time I get stuff that has absolutly nothing to do with
the topic. I know the system has a text to speech feature. In the control
panel it is called Microsoft Sam. But I can find no documentation any where
about how to use it in Word to read a document to me. The Help is useless
when I ask it about how to do it. I ready to jsut throw up my arms and give
up. I just don't understand why there is no simple explanation anywhere to
tell how to do this. It should be simple.
 
It IS simple...
1. In Windows, click on Start | Control Panel | Speech | Text to Speech |
<choose voice and volume settings> | OK.
2. In Word, click on Tools | Speech. It's not necessary to completely
configure Speech Recognition at this point, so you can click on Cancel if you
want to skip this part for now. The Language toolbar should appear somewhere
on the screen. Click on the little downward-pointing triangle at the bottom
right corner of the Language toolbar, and make sure the "Speak Text" option
is checked.
3. Open a Word document, click where you want Word to begin reading aloud
or select the text that you want Word to read aloud, and click on the Speak
button on the Language toolbar.
 
Dosent work... i get to
Click on the little downward-pointing triangle at the bottom
right corner of the Language toolbar, and make sure the "Speak Text" option
is checked.
Click to expand...

there is no option... just help, settings, restore defaults....

As parent says, why is it so hard!
 
Hi, 6th time lucky. My guess is that you do not have the Alternative
User Input features installed.
 
garfield-n-odie said:
Hi, 6th time lucky. My guess is that you do not have the Alternative
User Input features installed.
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Hmm, ok, ta. It seems quite counter-intuative to install alternative user
input freatures, for an *output* (go microsoft!). I have googled for that
that and found very little except for some updates for it. However i also
found during this search that text-to-speech is a "hidden" office feature,
which i should install from the CD.

Now the problem is i dont have access to the CD. No i havnt pirated it, i
have a corporate install c/o the university... so i would have to deal with
helpdesk, job numbers, etc, just so i can see if it will work...

you would think there would be somewhere i could just download it from. (it
wasnt until i found the complete office service pack files that i updated my
office from RTM to SP3), office update was no help.

ugh.. too hard... (but thanks anyway)
 
Correct, the text-to-speech feature is not installed automatically in a
typical installation. You have to choose a custom installation, and
select the text-to-speech feature in... Alternative User Input.
 
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