Speech.Speak Method (Excel)

Microsoft Excel plays back the text string that is passed as an argument.

Syntax

expression .Speak(Text, SpeakAsync, SpeakXML, Purge)

expression A variable that represents a Speech object.

Parameters

Name

Required/Optional

Data Type

Description

Text

Required

String

The text to be spoken.

SpeakAsync

Optional

Variant

True will cause the Text to be spoken asynchronously (the method will not wait of the Text to be spoken). False will cause theText to be spoken synchronously (the method waits for the Text to be spoken before continuing). The default is False.

SpeakXML

Optional

Variant

True will cause the Text to be interpreted as XML. False will cause the Text to not be interpreted as XML, so any XML tags will be read and not interpreted. The default is False.

Purge

Optional

Variant

True will cause current speech to be terminated and any buffered text to be purged before Text is spoken. False will not cause the current speech to be terminated and will not purge the buffered text before Text is spoken. The default is False.

Example

In this example, Microsoft Excel speaks "Hello".

Sub UseSpeech() 
 
 Application.Speech.Speak "Hello" 
 
End Sub

See Also

Concepts

Speech Object

Speech Object Members