Speech synthesis on Windows

[Barry Levine]

I've used Macintalk within Rev to make my Mac speak phrases I have in 
fields (not user entered but static). How can I do this on a Windows PC 
without requiring some special hardware? Is there any "standard minimum 
configuration" that might be valid to spec?

If I have to include real AIFF files on both platforms to make the 
features common I will do so. I was just wondering...

Thanks,
Barry