Help Me!!!! Please!!1 TTS...

[Virtual24]

The Microsoft Text To Speech Engine is driving me crazy
(yes i have the Microsoft Speech SDK... and i've gone to Project|Components and added a DirectSS Control to my form...)

I've tried:
DirectSS1.sayit ("hello")
DirectSS1.speak ("Hello")

None of these work!!!! It Wont speak to me... It works in the sample program that the SDK comes with tho... I need Help... Please!!! Who knows how to make the TTS engine work in a VB app?!?!?

[jjortiz]

Tell me if this works on your system cause it works on mine.

[jjortiz]

Remove the spaces around the speak so it looks like this

DirectSS1.speak  "Hello"
or
DirectSS1.speak text1.text
assuming that you have a textbox

and
the say it method is used in this way

DirectSS1.Sayit = "test"

[Virtual24]

no there is no source code for the sample.... that is the bad part... I'll see if that sample work on my system... thanx...

[jjortiz]

I do not quite know the right wording for this, but if you are going to set the value of a returned function to a variable you would use the parens if you are not returning the values then you would not use the parens. Something like that. That is why it was not working. You probably do not have to download the code. You just have to look at the next post after that.

[Virtual24]

well, the speak function still does nothing, but the sayit function i got somewhere on.... when i put

DirectSS1.sayit = "test"

instead of it doing absolutly nothing, it gives me an error:

"method "sayit" of object "IDirectSS" failed."

Can you tell me why it gives me this error and how to fix it? thanx...

[jjortiz]

Did you use it the way i stated above.

[DaoK]

Where you find the dll to use taht

[Virtual24]

yes

[jjortiz]

Try and download it from ms again. I do not have here at work. And i have no speakers so i really cannot test.

[Virtual24]

I'll try... but maybe i didn't set it up right...?

[Virtual24]

I was using the 5.0 SDK. I guess there is something wrong with it cause I downloaded the 4.0 SDK Suite and it works!!!

[jjortiz]

Cool