Choose the Text-to-speech Playback VoiceText-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 Windows XP operating system. Additional engines are
also available through third party manufacturers. This procedure tells
you how to select a playback voice associated with the TTS engine you
use through Speech Properties in Control Panel. | Mouse actions | Keyboard actions | 1 | On the Start menu: | Display the Start menu by pressing CTRL+ESC (or the Windows logo key ). • | Select Control Panel by pressing C. |
| 2 | In Control Panel: • | Be sure you are in Classic View (all Control Panel icons are showing). | • | If not, under Control Panel in the left pane, select Switch to Classic View. | • | Select Speech. |
| In Control Panel: • | Be sure you are in Classic View (all Control Panel icons are showing). | • | If not, under Control Panel in the left pane, select Switch to Classic View by pressing TAB. | • | Press ENTER. | • | Move to Speech by pressing the arrow keys. | • | Press ENTER. |
| 3 | In the Speech Properties dialog box, under Voice Selection: • | Select a voice option from the list. | • | Select OK. |
| In the Speech Properties dialog box: • | Move to Voice Selection by pressing ALT+V. | • | Select a voice from the list of options by pressing the arrow keys. | • | Press ENTER. |
| 4 | To close Control Panel: • | Select the Close button. |
| To close Control Panel: |

Control Panel: Speech: Text to Speech tab: Voice selection
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