Labview 5.1 text to speech

[Mangeee]

Hello!

I would like to know the minimum version of Labview to use "text to speech" function, if there is one?

The lowest I've found is an example for Labview 6.1 to use with Microsoft SDK 5.1.

I have access to Labview 5.1 at the moment and I wonder if I have to upgrade to a higher version? If so, which version at least?

If anyone have example code for "text to speech" function it would be great if you could share it!

Thanks!

[LabVIEW_Joel]

the LV 6.1 example is just calling windows dlls.  This VI could be written in any version of LabVIEW.  I don't think that it is using anything labview specific that would prevent it from running in LV 5.1

The olny way to convert down is to do a save for previous from LV 6.1, into LV 6.0, and then from 6.0 to 5.1.  I know that this seems like a pain, but it is the only way to save it down to your version.

If you haven't seen a new version of LV since 5.1, this might be a great reason to buy LV 8.0.  The cost of the new version is less than the amount of time you'll spend finding the old versions, and saving all those VIs for a previous version.

Let me know if you have any questions.

joel

[Jimmie_A.]

Hello!

You can even try out LabVIEW 8 Online here without downloading/installing software:

http://digital.ni.com/demo.nsf/websearch/CE34B1339DE04F2086256E930074129F?OpenDocument&node=1381_US 

Regards,

Jimmie A.

Applications Engineer, National Instruments