ms speech from command line

Question

Is there a way to use the MS Speech utility from command line? I can do it on a mac, but can\'t find any reference to it on Windows XP.

Answer 1

If you can't find a command you can always wrap the System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer from .Net 3.0 (Don't forget to reference "System.Speech")

using System.Speech.Synthesis;

namespace Talk
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var ss = new SpeechSynthesizer())
                foreach (var toSay in args)
                    ss.Speak(toSay);
        }
    }
}