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.
If you want to bring the text-to-speech action sound to a Windows 2012 server class RDP system, you need to ensure the ‘Windows Audio’ and ‘Windows Audio Endpoint Builder’ Services are running and you are connected through an RDP connection with the remote audio playback radio set to ‘Play on this computer’.

Configure the following:

in Windows, click Start>Run, in the Run dialog type TSCC.msc, then click OK.
In the Connections folder, double-click RDP-tcp. The RDP-TCP Properties dialog appears.
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.