Text to Speech is built into MS Office products from version
XP on-wards. There are options to make Excel read cells.
Certainly, MS Excel can talk. MS Excel text to speech speaks in computer voice, which is close to a female
voice.
How can we make use of it?
I recommend with a custom function, which simply reads the
content of the cell. The voice recognition is quite good for numbers, but for
words some improvement is still required.
Also you can make use of this text to speech code in your VBA automation
for messaging purpose.
Here comes the user defined function, which you should put
inside of a new VBA module:
Dim strText As String
strText = "Excel is talking with
you..."
Application.Speech.Speak strInput, True
ExcelTalkToMe= strText
End Function