Creating programs that can speak
 

So tonight I was writing a paper in MS Word and noticed something new. When you select text and hit windows key+ s it will say it. I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a program speak. In other words how to make a program talk using the built in windows speech program. Possibly adding other voices to it. So you could customize the voices. If you have seen war games, I want something like that where the computer can interact with the users. Sure that could just be Hollywood but there has to be a way that we could make it happen.

You can do this with .NET using SAPI (Speech API), here is the link shows how to do it in C# and VB:

http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/arc...31/909044.aspx

I don't know about changing voices in it, but built-in voices are not bad though. :)

Look into microsoft agents and text-to-speech controls.