Office XP Speech Reconition

[Sandra Smithey]

I did the voice training sessions for the Speech Recognition program that
comes with Office XP. I can now have the program type for me but can't have
it read text. The "Speak Text" and "Pause Speaking" buttons and the language
tool bar are grayed out. I can't find a way to set these two button so they
will work. Can anyone help with this problem?

Sandra

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Sandra,

If you're in Windows XP the Text-to-speech features
are available from Windows. If you're not on that
version of Windows the text-to-speech feature in
Office XP is in Excel, only, although you can make
it work in other apps:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287120

Check in the Windows Control panel to see if
the text services are active for the language bar.

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I did the voice training sessions for the Speech Recognition program that
comes with Office XP. I can now have the program type for me but can't have
it read text. The "Speak Text" and "Pause Speaking" buttons and the language
tool bar are grayed out. I can't find a way to set these two button so they
will work. Can anyone help with this problem?

Sandra>>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Sandra Smithey]

I have Windows XP Operating System with Office XP. I just trained the
program to type but can't figure out why I can't get it to speak what is
written. Thanks for the reply.

Sandra

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Sandra,

Have you checked the 'speech' icon in the Windows control
panel to see if the language bar and text to speech are
enabled? It's a separate function and utility than
you dictating to Office.

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I have Windows XP Operating System with Office XP. I just trained the
program to type but can't figure out why I can't get it to speak what is
written. Thanks for the reply.

Sandra >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*