Read out Loud problem in Adobe Reader X

I tried the Read out loud feature of Adobe Reader X, but it does not seem to be working.
I am using Adobe Reader X on windows XP sp3
when i click activate read out loud
it gives me to more options in the view menu to read current page and read entire file to the end
when I click either option, the option to pause and stop appears in the view menu but i dont hear anything.
what should I do?

Thanks for the response.
Yes, this is mostly pie in the sky.  We're interested in taking the
audio from a document read aloud by Adobe Reader and converting it into
a format that can be burned to CD. I'm assuming that we would simply have to record the aloud reading--but I was wondering if Reader gurus might have a better approach.
J

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