I am starting MS Word from my Delphi application using ShellExec.........
How can I make sure Word is not running before I do this and if it is,
display the currently active copy of Word?

Thank you

Mark

Am looking for component or API or app for generating speech from text,
similar to Apple Voice Manager, which is integrated with MacOS.  It is great
for verifying spread sheet entries or verbal alert messages.

Is the reverse available? (Apple's Speech Manager, which takes a labeled
item, and executes it when you speak its label, i.e. "Tell me a joke")

In article <QJMS2.5$eS3...@news.uswest.net>, "Jim Hargis" <jhar...@uswest.net>
writes:

Microsoft Voice (distributed with Microsoft Phone with Miro MWave 33.6 Data Fax
VOD Modem) some years ago did both these things. Speech was pretty american
though.

I guess SAPI and its engine does this now much better.

Alan Lloyd
alangll...@aol.com

The Microsoft Agent server incorporates a text to speech engine. But it's a
lot of overhead to carry if you don't need/want the actual "Agent" portion
(characters, etc). There may be some ways to just utilize the text-to-speech
engine directly... but you'd probably have to go to a lower level and
experiment with undocumented calls.

If you're interested, you can find info at:
http://www.microsoft.com/msagent

As a side note... the Agent OCX is easy to integrate into Delphi... so if
you *do* want the characters, it's like a bonus  ;-)

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