Text2Speech, how?

[alcyone]

Hi there,

In my windows XP Control Panel, I have an item called 'Speech', where I can test text to speech conversion. Is there a (easy) way to use this feature in C++, by calling a function or so? I think I've to use DirectX, but have no experience with it.
Thanks for any answers!

 

[obislavu]

If you have that on your PC that means you have C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\SAPI.dll installed and you can use to implement what you want by adding it as reference in your project and use of SpeechLib as well the SpSharedRecoContext , ISpeechRecoContext , ISpeechRecoGrammar , ISpeechGrammarRule classes to create a SpSharedRecoContext object.
Add handlers for the following events: AudioLevel, Recognition.
Set the EventInterests property in a SpSharedRecoContext object.
Call CreateGrammar() on the SpSharedRecoContext object to load a grammar for a given file or specify that programmatically at run time.
-obislavu-

 

[alcyone]

Hi Obislavu,

Thanks for your answer! I indeed had the SAPI.dll, but was missing the Microsoft Speech SDK. I've downloaded it and now it's rather easy.