Generally, "Class not registered" means you don't have the COM object installed properly (or not installed at all). In this case, that means the SAPI libraries and/or DLLs. If you have Windows Script Host installed (the default on WinXP and Win2K), see if you can create the object in a VBScript snippet.

P.S.
If you haven't discovered Dave Roth's web site yet, it's time to start. He has excellent materials on getting started with Perl on Win32.

Update
As BrowserUk pointed out, it's "Dave" Roth, not "Phil" Roth as I originally had it...

Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.

In reply to Re: Noob question about calling methods in Win32 from perl by VSarkiss
in thread Noob question about calling methods in Win32 from perl by TROGDOR

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