Talking text...

[Carl and Jen]

On an older (MSWord) version I could highlight the text and then the
computer would read it out loud. I now have Works Suite 2003 and Can't find
the feature on the MSWord that came with it. Can someone please let me know
how I can do this?

I checked help and the only thing I could find under "speak" was speech
recognition which is not what I am looking for right now but I thought I
might use that feature in the future. But when I tried to set up even that
it prompted me to put in the original disk so it could install it, but kep
getting hung up because it could not find a file called YC561413.CAB

Thanks for any help.

CJ

 

[ausongbird]

What OS are you running? These days, speech seems to be handled by the
OS rather than by the app. There's a language toolbar if you're using
Windows XP.

 

[Carl and Jen]

Thanks for the reply. I am running Windows XP but not sure how to access
what you are telling me through it. I can't find a toolbar that has a speak
button. In other words, if I highlight some text I've written in MS-Word
how do I get it to speak?

CJ