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Friday, October 01, 2010

Make Windows 7 Recite Any Message Upon Login

I'm always fascinated by talking computers in Movies. Although it may still take years for computer to talk on its own, now you can make them speak by using the built-in Text to Speech program (Narrator). Here is a cool tip that enables your computer to narrate any message upon logon. All you need is to create a VB script to make use of Windows 7 welcome narration feature. If you don't know how to code a VB script, no worries, these simple steps will guide through it.

1. Open your Notepad program.
2. Copy and paste the following commands.


Dim TextToNarrate, Narrator
TextToNarrate="Fryan, Welcome to Windows"
Set Narrator=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
Narrator.Speak TextToNarrate


3. Change the text inside the open and close quotes (") to your preferred message.
4. Save the file and rename its extention to .VBS
5. Copy the file to the following path.
"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
6. To find the correct path you can go to Start > All Programs and Right click the Start Up folder and click Open on the popup menu as shown below

Make Windows 7 Recite Any Message Upon Login

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