The invalid class string is "Speech.VoiceText". This is the M$ application not Perl. For example to fool around with Excel you do: 

my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application" , sub { $_[0]->Quit } 
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So you don't appear to have the TTS engine installed. It works for me on Win2k but if I change the string to Speech1.VoiceText" (which of course does not exists) I get the invalid class string error. You can (probably) find the engine here

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: Text to Speech Win32::OLE Error by tachyon
in thread Text to Speech Win32::OLE Error by TROGDOR

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