If that's Visual Basic on Windows, then look into Accessibility features -- such as a method(s), object or a library that handles accessibility for the blind.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819351Also, it looks like there is a "Speak" method that probably exists on all such text based GUI objects, included in Visual Basic:
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http://forum.codecall.net/topic/47097-vb-text-to-speech-really-simple/#axzz2BTechzX0 (be sure to scroll down and view all of the comments
My experience is in Visual C++ (decades ago -- long before .net) and Java so my word doesn't mean much, anymore. But, it's worth a shot
I had a brief encounter with Visual Basic out of necessity. I never liked how most of the code is hidden inside graphical objects that you have to open in order to see it. You can't just look at the code, you have to go find it!