Text to Speech from Command Line (Run box)

Hi,

Anyone know if its possible to get Narrator (or any other program) in
Vista to just say some
text from the command line?

Basically I am looking for a way in Vista to send some text to the OS
and have it say it (Text to Speech) without displaying a window or
anything...

TIA,

P.

if you have text to speech software setup to do it, maybe the MS network
messenger (where you can make a message popup over the network)
I have never tried it, so that is a WAG.
something like
netsend 192.168.1.*** the network will shutdown in 5 minutes, please save
your work and log off

"PG" <> wrote in message
news:277fcfef-fc5a-4a57-8e42-...
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know if its possible to get Narrator (or any other program) in
> Vista to just say some
> text from the command line?
>
> Basically I am looking for a way in Vista to send some text to the OS
> and have it say it (Text to Speech) without displaying a window or
> anything...
>
> TIA,
>
> P.

On Dec 25, 5:04*am, "Not Even Me" <cargo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> if you have text to speech software setup to do it, maybe the MS network
> messenger (where you can make a message popup over the network)
> I have never tried it, so that is a WAG.
> something like
> netsend 192.168.1.*** the network will shutdown in 5 minutes, please save
> your work and log off
>
> "PG" <paulg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:277fcfef-fc5a-4a57-8e42-...
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Anyone know if its possible to get Narrator (or any other program) in
> > Vista to just say some
> > text from the command line?
>
> > Basically I am looking for a way in Vista to send some text to the OS
> > and have it say it (Text to Speech) without displaying a window or
> > anything...
>
> > TIA,
>
> > P.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Thanks, but I dont have any special TTS software setup - I am looking
for how to use those features built into Vista as opposed to something
third-party.

I could write a little program to do it, but after all the advertising
for the SAPI 5.3 and Vista TTS capabilites I assume there is some way
to actually use these features outside of just running the Narrator
software...

Anyone?