Cool, let me know if you need any help.
>Yup! Maybe I'll write a mini-framework showcasing this as soon as my workload slows down a bit......
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>>I think you might be onto something. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_texttosp.htm.
>>It's a doc about the Text-to-speech SDK. It has an active-x com control.
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>>Once you got the thing running (didn't read far enough know what's involved) You can have it just speak the caption or the value of a control with:
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>>object.Speak(this.caption, vtxtst_STATEMENT)
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>>>MS Voice Control and/or IBM ViaVoice.
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>>>>The mouseover stuff is pretty easy, but is there anything in vfp to play the sound? Would you just store each phrase as a .wav?
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>>>>>Haha....no, I'm serious! You could have the MouseOver for controls kick out speech like "Print button" and over databound controls it could say "First name is John". You could also have a VerbalSynopsis property for the Form that, when set on, could say a verbal synopsis of what is displayed when the record pointer is moved.
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>>>>>>Easy, just train a monkey to sit on your shoulder, watch the screen, and hit a button on a voice sampler. < g >
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