Text to Speech Action

This action plays a text-to-speech message on your computer.

Configure the following:

• Name. Enter a unique name for the action. This name displays in the Action Library.
• Description. (Optional) Enter additional information about the action. This description displays next to the action in the Action Library.
• Speak Rate. Select how fast the voice speaks the message.
• Volume. Select the volume of the message.
• Message. Enter any text message you want audibly repeated. You can use your own text in addition to percent variables.
• OK. Click to save your changes.

Tip: To check the status of an action, or to cancel an action, in the WhatsUp Gold console go to Tools > Running Actions.

The Desktop Actions application must be running for the Text to Speech action to work. If you want to bring the text-to-speech action sound to a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server class remote desktop (RDP) system, you need to enable audio mapping for the remote system's Terminal Services Configuration.

Configure the following:

1. in Windows, click Start>Run, in the Run dialog type TSCC.msc, then click OK.
2. In the Connections folder, double-click RDP-tcp. The RDP-TCP Properties dialog appears.
3. Select the Client Settings tab, then click to clear the Audio Mapping check box. When enabled, the text-to-speech action sound only plays on the remote desktop system.

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