Text-to-voice in MC 3.04

Recently, I was wondering about text-to-voice capability in Mushclient (such that I could have MS Agent or whatever read out all the incoming lines, so I can be elsewhere and still know what's going on in my worlds).

Reading the suggestion page (#321), I see that you can apparently do this with a script, but being a bit of a moron, I don't understand what needs to be done. The report also talks about a custom DLL (which I don't have) that was made in VB (which I also don't have).

Anyone have any idea how I might be able to get text-to-voice to work correctly in MC, or would this be better off left alone?

Thanks,

-KDM

Because I try to avoid "software bloat" I am reluctant to install of these extra things, and thus have never got text-to-speech working.

I think I read that it works in Windows 2000, which I also haven't installed for the same reason.

If anyone else has an example I would be pleased to hear about it.