This from the Help and support center ...which would give you the
instructions if you used it
Click Start then "help&support"
Type in Text to Speech and read the instructions
Text-to-speech overviewText-to-speech (TTS) is the ability of the operating
system to play back printed text as spoken words. An internal driver, called
a TTS engine, recognizes the text and using a synthesized voice chosen from
several pre-generated voices, speaks the written text. A TTS engine is
installed with the operating system. Additional engines are also available
through third party manufacturers. These engines often use a certain jargon
or vocabulary; for example, a vocabulary specializing in medical or legal
terminology. They can also use different voices allowing for regional
accents such as British English, or speak a different language altogether
such as German, French or Russian. For more information on third parties who
provide additional SAPI 5-compatible components, please visit our Third
Party Products page.
The Text-to-Speech tab on Speech properties in Control Panel presents the
options for each TTS engine. See the individual Help topics for specific
help. In addition to the general options, each engine can have a different
set of specific features. For that reason, not all the resulting dialog
boxes will look the same. It is possible that no special features have been
included and some of the properties buttons will not have an associated
dialog box.
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