Voice Synthesized E-Mail
announcements for Outlook
11/28/2003
This is prototype code, but it's kind of cool. I woke up the other morning
and had a bug to write this, so I spent the day throwing it together. I'm
including the C# source code as well as the setup program.
I'm not sure which versions of Outlook it will and won't work with except
that it works with Outlook version 9.0. I don't think it works with 11.0. It
may work with 10.x. If anyone can figure out how to make it version independent,
I'd love to know, so please drop me a line if you feel like fixing that.
Basically, the way it works is this. It's an addin for Outlook. When
new mail arrives, it will make an announcement. For example, if you receive
an e-mail from Michael Thompson with a subject of "Free fish for the masses,"
then you'll hear the computer announce, "You have mail from Michael Thompson
about free fish for the masses."
I doubt I'm going to get my Nobel peace prize for this particular piece of
work, but it was a fun way to spend a day.
This program is released under the
LGPL
(Lesser General Public License).
The Source Code
The setup program
