"Speech" isn't in control panel

[Greg]

I read that "Speech" should be a control panel item, but
it's not there. I don't think I removed it, but maybe I
did. Could you tell me how to make "Speech" available?
My big goal is to get the "text-to-speech" going. Thanks.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

Look in the right pane for a value called speech.cpl If it exists, right
click the speech.cpl entry and select Delete.

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"Greg" > wrote in message
...
> I read that "Speech" should be a control panel item, but
> it's not there. I don't think I removed it, but maybe I
> did. Could you tell me how to make "Speech" available?
> My big goal is to get the "text-to-speech" going. Thanks.

[Kelly]

Hi Greg,

Do you have Office installed, if so:

The speech recognition engine must be installed. It is available with
Office XP, but it might not have been installed.

NOTE: If you remove speech recognition, it is not deleted from your
computer. When you do so, speech recognition is no longer available as a
text service and it is prevented from being loaded into memory. You can add
it again at any time.

HOW TO: Install and Configure Speech Recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q306537

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"Greg" > wrote in message
...
> I read that "Speech" should be a control panel item, but
> it's not there. I don't think I removed it, but maybe I
> did. Could you tell me how to make "Speech" available?
> My big goal is to get the "text-to-speech" going. Thanks.

[Sharon F]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:21:13 -0700, Greg wrote:

> I read that "Speech" should be a control panel item, but
> it's not there. I don't think I removed it, but maybe I
> did. Could you tell me how to make "Speech" available?
> My big goal is to get the "text-to-speech" going. Thanks.

Clicking Start> Programs> Accessories> Accessibilities> Narrator will start
the text-to-speech application. Use Windows key + U to bring up the
Utilities Manager if you want to configure it to run at startup.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User