Marvin,
I still use XL2K, so I can't test it, but from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true
it seems that there is a Speech object. If you trap the error that will
occur, if speech is no possible when:

Dim Spch As Object
On Error Resume Next
Set Spch = Application.Speech
If Err.Number 0 Then
MsgBox "Speech not available"
Exit Sub
End If

NickHK

"Marvin" wrote in message
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How can I detect if the speech feature is installed in Excel?