Speech from VB6 app?

[Noozer]

Is there an easy way to generate speech from a VB6 application?

I remember seeing a text to speech control some time ago, but I cannot
remember what it was called and how it was installed in to VB6.

Thanks!

[mayayana]

Re: Speech from VB6 app?

SAPI (speech API) 5 has a very easy-to-use COM
object for TTS. Using text to speech is almost as easy as writing:
Speak (string to speak)

You can download the SAPI 5.1 SDK from MS. It has
some adequate TTS samples. The tough part is distributing
the TTS support files with your software. It's very big.

SAPI 4 is much smaller but I don't know anything
about how well it works or how easy it is to use.
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Noozer <dont.spam@me.h ere> wrote in message
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> Is there an easy way to generate speech from a VB6 application?
>
> I remember seeing a text to speech control some time ago, but I cannot
> remember what it was called and how it was installed in to VB6.
>
> Thanks!
>
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[kpg]

Re: Speech from VB6 app?

"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.h ere> wrote in message
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> Is there an easy way to generate speech from a VB6 application?
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> I remember seeing a text to speech control some time ago, but I cannot
> remember what it was called and how it was installed in to VB6.
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> Thanks![/color]


Ref: Microsoft Speech Object Library (sapi.dll)

Public Voice As New SpVoice

Sub Speak(s As String)
On Local Error Resume Next
Voice.Speak s, SVSFlagsAsync
End Sub

[dreamer]

Re: Speech from VB6 app?

On Tue, 11 May 2004 23:47:16 GMT, "Noozer" <dont.spam@me.h ere> wrote:
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>Is there an easy way to generate speech from a VB6 application?
>
>I remember seeing a text to speech control some time ago, but I cannot
>remember what it was called and how it was installed in to VB6.
>
>Thanks!
>[/color]
Microsoft Agent does it.
It is a free download from MS.
Search google using microsoft agent as your keywords for sample code
and installation instructions.
It allows you to use animated charactors to do the talking and
gesturing.