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I have a VB-script that triggers the computers speech synthesis and speaks whatever I pass to the script. Now I want to use this from an AHK script but I can't get it to work and I don't know why...

This
(the variable %Name% is not empty and works fine with other commands) gives me


but writing


in a dos prompt works just fine - the word "testing" is spoken.

What am I missing...?

You don't need VBS for that...

TTS() Text To Speech using COM

I know there are some AHK scripts for TTS but this VB script is already used by other applications and it would be very nice to use it with AHK as well.

or



The only problem is that the command prompt window shows. You might be able to use use CMDret to avoid that-

CMDret - AHK functions

The basic scripts should be :
the AHK one :
Use RunWait to ... wait for the VBS script to finish to be executed, else use Run.
the Hide parameter ... hide the command prompt window.
The VBS one (LineCol.vbs):
Thats OK if you don't need to retreive results.
If you need to get back results, you can use CMDret or pass back the result with the clipboard. For that I use the COM DLL of AutoIt, AutoItX.

Thanks guys,


did the trick.

just a few comments :
1) It works too without the need to specify the path of cscript.exe
2) I use the notation "%Name%" for the parameters to be able to send parameters with space in them. If you are shure that there isn't any space character in your parameters, ou can use the notation Name instead (without "% and %"...

1. It does.
2. There are spaces in %Name%, therefore I use quotation marks.

A follow-up question; is there anyway to trigger an environment variable containing the path to a VB-script? If I run
from a dos prompt, the words are spoken. How to run it from an AHK script?

remove #NoEnv from the top of the script, or you can use EnvGet to get where tts is.

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I don't have #NoEnv and I still haven't found a way to trigger %tts% from AHK.

I don't understand well what you want. May be it's because I'm not native language english... Please show the full command you enter under dos prompt.
If the question is how to transfert the content of an environnement variable to a vbscript, the answer is : like the others params.
For instance :
May be I didn't understood your request.

If you want to make the PC speak, try this : AHK script :
VBScript :

** Not tested ** (As I didn't install text-to-speach on py PC) ... but should work...

Tell me if it's what you whant and if it is OK...

English isn't my native language either...

First, I have this in Windows XP;

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Now, if I enter this;

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the computer's speech synthesis says "this is a test".

I must say I didn't knew the first dialog box you shown, "Edit system variable"
I tried : to see if there is an environement variable called tts, it isn't the case.
I seen the (affected ?) value of this variable is the path and the name of your vbs file.
Of course in Windows, if you double click a vbs file, it is executed.
I think that is what is done by : So what you done via the Run dialog box is the same as to execute your script (c:\scripts\speak.vbs) with "this is a test" as parameter.
is the same as to write in the Window's Run dialog (It should be usefull to see the content of the VBS script itself...)
But in AHK (as far as I know), can't work. You must specify the program used to run the vbs file. So to run your script you should write something like that :

Hope it helps. I go to sleep. Bye.

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