See http://www.gmayor.com/word_text_to_speech.htm . It should not be
difficult to add a timer to the code - see vba help on 'timer' which
provides the extra code as an example.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Paul Wochnick wrote:
I work for a television station and need some advice. Is there a way
to calculate the amount of time it would take to read a piece of text
for a voice over in Microsoft Word? Is there another tool that would
do that?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.