🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all


So here is what I did so far:

I spent the last three days trying to use the MS SAPI SDK 5.1. It installed 
all right and the samples in VB work OK.


Using the code snipped of my last post I was able to let it speak through my 
speaker.

But since then I am hitting one problem after the other.

When I include the "sphelper.h" needed for the SPBindToFile function, I get
plenty of errors in the *.h files.
IE if I set the _DEBUG option I get the error _CRTDBG_MODE_DEBUG not defined
in the sebug.h and many more errors complaining about missing definitions 
?!?!?



When I disable the debugger (not really a solution in the long term) I am 
able to compile (after a couple of adaptations to the sphelper.h)


Now I used the attached code and tried to write the TTS to a file.

Unfortunately it fails every time with the call to SPBindToFile (Error = 
E_INVALIDARG).

I had a look through all of www.deja.com, did Google searches and played 
around myself with the parameters => no success.



Therefore my questions:



1)Has anyone ever successfully used SAPI v5 with BCB6 and was able to 
compile the sphelper.h in _DEBUG mode ?

2)Has anyone ever successfully used the SPBindToFile function ?



I was also looking at using the MS OCXs, but Microsoft does not ship them in 
SAPI v5 anymore and I do not really want to go back to SAP v4.



Rds

Marc



******************************************************

void TSpeech::SpeakToFile(String Words, String sFileName)
{

 HRESULT         hr = S_OK;
 ISpVoice        *cpVoice;
 ISpStream       *cpStream;
 CSpStreamFormat *cAudioFmt;

 //Create a SAPI Voice
 hr = cpVoice.CoCreateInstance( CLSID_SpVoice );

 //Set the audio format
 if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
    hr = cAudioFmt.AssignFormat(SPSF_22kHz16BitMono);
 }

 //Call SPBindToFile, a SAPI helper method,  to bind the audio stream to the 
file
 if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
   hr = SPBindToFile( L"c:\\ttstemp.wav",  SPFM_CREATE_ALWAYS,
   &cpStream, & cAudioFmt.FormatId(),cAudioFmt.WaveFormatExPtr() );
 }

  //=>  FAILS HERE WITH INVALIARG ****************************



 //set the output to cpStream so that the output audio data will be stored 
in cpStream
 if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
   hr = cpVoice->SetOutput( cpStream, TRUE );
 }

 //Speak the text "hello world" synchronously
 if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
    hr = cpVoice->Speak( L"Hello World",  SPF_DEFAULT, NULL );
 }

 //close the stream
 if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
 {
  hr = cpStream->Close();
 }

 //Release the stream and voice object
 cpStream.Release ();
 cpVoice.Release();
}