Popeye57,
Make sure your Speech is working through Windows.
Go to: Control Panel > Ease of Access > Speech Recognition
To the left you will see Text to Speech (select)
You should then see a window open with Speech Properties
Make sure the Text to Speech tab is highlighted then check any voices there to see if they work.
Good luck!
(be sure your speaker volume is up loud enough to hear. Hey, it's happened before).
