Re: text to speech 2007
Bob Buckland ?:-) At Beautiful Downtown
In Office XP and Office 2003 only MS Excel had its own 'text to speech' (speak/readback) feature. You could, using macros, get it
to work in Word and Powerpoint as well using either the MS macros in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287120&fr=1
or the macros by Mathew Heikila from
http://gmayor.com/word_text_to_speech.htm
(In Word 2007 you can use still use Alt+F11 to enter the VB Editor, but to assign the buttons for the two macros right click on the
Quick Access Toolbar to select customize, then in the Customization dialog choose the 'Macros' category and add them to the QAT.
You can use the 'modify' button in the customization dialog to change the display name of the 'text to speech' and 'stop speaking'
macros from the 2nd article. [The Speak one works, but the StopSpeak macro doesn't seem to interrupt the speaking as it does in
Word 2003]
In Office 2007 'Speak' is still in Excel, but you have to manually located and move to the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar) the five
separate 'Speak' related commands from
Office Button=>Excel Options=>Customization
and locate the commands in the 'Commands not in the Ribbon' category.
Office XP and Office 2003 also provided 'alternative input' features to allow for handwriting, drawing(ink) and the ability to
dictate text and commands in all three primary apps. Those features are not shipping with Office 2007, with that functionallity
returning to the Windows team to provide it.
On Windows Vista it's fairly easy to put it into play :) For using it on Windows XP you may want to ask the folks in the new
Windows Speech newsgroup (link below) on what process they recommend for restoring that functionality. If you do not have an older
version of Office on this computer then the MS Speech Recognition Engine doesn't ship with Windows XP, but does ship in the MS
Windows XP Plus! pack.
Third party apps, such as Dragon Naturally speaking, may be a more capable (and easier <g>) way to go for Windows XP users for
dictation and apps such as 'Read Genius', or 'SpeakText'
http://speaktext.com for read-back, may also be helpful, especially if they're using the more natural sounding AT&T speech engine
voices :)
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>>"Tony" <To...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3A13720D-EB7D-44B5...@microsoft.com...
how or where is text to speech in word 2007 >>
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I hope this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office system products MVP
>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
LINKS for the 2007 Office System
1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/
3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007
a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net
Tony
> Thankyou this is very helpfull - I have also found the free version of NaturalReader also works with word 2007 to read back text
Thanks again
tony
John Grant
the text on the sreen.
<On Windows Vista it's fairly easy to put it into play :)>
Not sure how to do that.
thanks
-John
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