

There are methods for downloading more voices that will work with Narrator: To set Narrator voice options (Microsoft) It has a few built-in options for male and female voices. Note that Narrator sets the actual voice you will hear. Voila - your computer will then speak the hour. When you hear the voice say the time you know the task is working. Now, on the left side, click on "Task Scheduler Library"įind your new entry, right-click on it and then click on Run Modify the Start Time so the time looks like: 12:00:00 to make it trigger at the top of each hour.Ĭheck the box for "Repeat task every" - set it to 1 hour and for a duration of Indefinitely.Ĭheck box for "Stop task if it runs longer than" and set it to 30 minutesĬlick on the "Actions" tab, then the "New." button - It will open with Action set to Start a Program. Select (click) on the "Triggers" tab, then the "New." button - It will be set to One time. Give it a name - perhaps "Say Time" - below that you will see the security options default to having it run only when the current user is logged in. Open Task Scheduler - click Start, type in "scheduler" then press enter Set speech = CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") Create a VBscript text file called saytime.vbs Dim speech, hr, sez
