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Options Explicit
Dim DirectSR1 As New DirectSR
Dim DirectSS1 As New DirectSS 

DirectSS1.Speak Text1.Text

'The engine will speak whatever is in Text1. 
       DirectSS1.Speak Text1.Text

'The engine will speak whatever is in Text1. 


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'This next example will "hear" you and respond to you 'depending on what you say. Add a Text-to-Speech and Direct 'Recognition control and insert the following code into it. 

Private Sub DirectSR1_PhraseFinish(ByVal flags As Long, ByVal beginhi As Long, ByVal beginlo As Long, ByVal endhi As Long, ByVal endlo As Long, ByVal Phrase As String, ByVal parsed As String, ByVal results As Long)
    If Phrase = "hello" Then DirectSS1.Speak "Hello to you too"
    If Phrase = "goodbye" Then DirectSS1.Speak "See you later"
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    ' The following are words that the Engine will reconize
    DirectSR1.GrammarFromString "[Grammar]" + vbNewLine + _
             "type=cfg" + vbNewLine + _
             "[]" + vbNewLine + _
             "=goodbye" + vbNewLine + _
             "=hello" + vbNewLine
    DirectSR1.Activate
End Sub
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'If you say hello or goodbye your computer should respond.

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' might work 
'this might work. its api and uses microsofts dll's and 'stuff. 

'i dont know if you need all of this i have to get off soon so i dont have time to go threw. 
Private Declare Function mciGetErrorString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciGetErrorStringA" (ByVal dwError As Long, ByVal lpstrBuffer As String, ByVal uLength As Long) As Long 
Private Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long 
Private Declare Function mciSendString Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "mciSendStringA" (ByVal lpstrCommand As String, ByVal lpstrReturnString As String, ByVal uReturnLength As Long, ByVal hwndCallback As Long) As Long 
Private TheFileName As String, RecordMode As Boolean, dwreturn(1 To 4) As Long 
Private ret As String * 128, OpenFile As Boolean, playingfile As Boolean 

Private Function IsItPlaying() As Boolean 'See the read me file 
Static yn As String * 30 
dwreturn(1) = mciSendString("status mpeg mode", yn, Len(yn), 0) 
If dwreturn(1) <> 0 Then 
MCIError dwreturn(1) 
Exit Function 
End If 
IsItPlaying = (Mid$(yn, 1, 7) = "playing") 
End Function

'http://www.microsoft.com/speech/;