How To Create Shortcut For Speaking The Text Currently In Clipboard
Firstly you need to download the tiny utility namely NirCmd and extract the zip file somewhere in your computer. It’s recommended to copy the executable of NirCmd (nircmd.exe) to your windows directory, or to any other folder listed in your PATH environment variable, so you won’t need to type the full path of nircmd in each time that you want to use it. If you do not copy it in the above mentioned place then you will have to mention the exact location of nircmd.exe file while creating this shortcut. Once you are done with downloading and the optional saving in windows directory then it is time to follow the easy steps mentioned below:
Right click on desktop and from the New menu select shortcut so as to create a new shortcut.
Now enter the path of nircmd.exe utility as shown below. You can type nircmd.exe ONLY if you have saved the utility in your windows directory as mentioned in the first para of this article.
Now copy the text show below next to nircmd.exe and hit next so as to create desktop shortcut for speaking the text currently in clipboard.
speak text ~$clipboard$
Now you can move the shortcut icon anywhere in your computer. Whenever your double click on it then windows (XP/VISTA) speaks the exact test that is in the clipboard.