Say Message Notification

If you enable the Say Message option on Windows XP or Windows 2003 you can listen to the up/down notifications through your speaker. The TextToSpeech engine, which is built into XP/20003, is used to read the message aloud. The "Speech API English Text To Speech Engine" component is a device driver responsible for the conversion of text into speech. It is part of the default installation of Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 (though for OEM versions of Windows XP other languages may also be installed on your computer). There is not much to configure about this engine, you can only select a language from a list of available languages, no additional configuration can be performed on languages.

To test the Text To Speech engine on your computer open the Speech icon from Control Panel, Select the Text To Speech tab, Enter a Text, and click on Preview.