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 =====Speaking the contents of a file=====
-//by Richard Russell, October 2008//\\ \\  The supplied example program **SPEAK.BBC** illustrates how you can use Windows' built-in speech synthesis capabilities to speak a string (or strings) provided by your program, but what if you want to speak the contents of a text file? You could, of course, load the file into a set of strings and speak those, but the **SAPI 5** speech system (typically available in Windows 2000, XP and Vista) provides a more direct method.\\ \\  The code below speaks the text in the specified file:\\ \\
+//by Richard Russell, October 2008//\\ \\  The supplied example program **SPEAK.BBC** illustrates how you can use Windows' built-in speech synthesis capabilities to speak a string (or strings) provided by your program, but what if you want to speak the contents of a text file? You could, of course, load the file into a set of strings and speak those, but the **SAPI 5** speech system (typically available in Windows 2000, XP and Vista) provides a more direct method.\\ \\  The code below speaks the text in the specified file:
+<code bb4w>
         INSTALL @lib$+"COMLIBA"
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         PROC_releaseobject(voice%)
         PROC_comexit
+</code>
 The value **12** in the **PROC_callmethod** line specifies that the file may contain embedded //tags// to control parameters such as speed, volume and voice (see [[/Setting%20speech%20parameters|this article]] for details). If you don't want such tags to be acted upon change this value to **4**.