If you don’t have an English version of Microsoft Office (XP or 2003), you will find the Text-to-speech function is not working. I have just discovered the following website which provided a very simple way to make your Excel speak. But you need some programming work to make it really useful.

http://www.xcelfiles.com/TTS.html

P.S. You need to include the “Microsoft Speech Object Library” in your programm which is located in

your drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.dll