Text to Speech

[PhillipR]

How do I get MS Office to read back text in a document file (text to speech)?
I have enabled text to speech and when I go to the Control Panel/Speech
settings, and preview the voice it works just fine.

However, when I click on Winkey+S, that activates OneNote' screen clipping
feature, so that doesn't work to activate the text to speech feature. I have
looked all over the Word Menu structure and don't see an option to activate
text to speech.

So how do I get text to speech activated?

Your feedback is appreciated.

Best Regards, Phil

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

The answer depends on what versions of Word and Windows you have.
Unfortunately you did not provide that information.

 

[PhillipR]

I'm using Microsoft Office 2003.

After a lot of trial and error, I think I figured out how to get the
text-to-speech feature to work. When you enable the speech tools in the
options menu of the speech tool bar, then a "Speak" button is inserted in the
toolbar which when depressed reads back any text that's highlighted.

Is that it or is there a better shortcut?

Best Regards, Phil