Test-to-Speech (Newbie Question)

[ManaUser]

I'm trying to get a really simple text to speech application working. I
know Microsoft has a number of free SDKs and such for that purpose but
frankly they're a bit much for me. Can anyone point me anything simpler?
I thought I had seen at one time a control I could pretty much just drag
and drop into my form and start using, but I can't find it now.

 

[ManaUser]

I'm trying to get a really simple text to speech application working. I
know Microsoft has a number of free SDKs and such for that purpose but
frankly they're a bit much for me. Can anyone point me anything simpler?
I thought I had seen at one time a control I could pretty much just drag
and drop into my form and start using, but I can't find it now.

That probably wasn't very clear (complete with a typo'd title). I think
I've figured out which control it was, but I still can't get it loaded.
It seems it's a VB6 control, but I should still be able to use it in
..Net, right? It's the one used here:
http://www.codeproject.com/vbscript/texttospeech.asp
Microsoft Direct Text-to-Speech:
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/sapi/spchapi.exe

I thought I could just run spchapi.exe and then add the control with the
customize toolbox command. Am I forgeting something?