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Some basic (and a bit more advanced) examples of using the Windows Speech API in JScript:

jscript code:

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var oVoice = new ActiveXObject("SAPI.SpVoice");

with (oVoice) {
    Voice = GetVoices()[0];
    Volume = 100;

    // basic example
    Rate = 1;
    Speak("Hello. This is a basic example of the speech Windows API");

    // XML example, changing pitch
    Rate = -2;
    Speak('<pitch middle="-25">Hello, I am a robot</pitch>' ,8);

    // XML example, using some other tags
    Rate = 0;
    Speak('<pitch absmiddle="30"><rate absspeed="-2">Now I\'m going to use a whining voice to spell the word: school<silence msec="500"/><rate speed="-3"><spell>school</spell></rate></rate></pitch>', 8);

    // XML example, difference in pronunciations
    Rate = 0;
    Speak('Did you <partofsp part="verb">record</partofsp> that <partofsp part="noun">record</partofsp>?',8);
}

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You can do a lot more though.
The SAPI help file (sapi.chm) can be downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.asp...-B0EE-6583171B4530