🚀 go-pugleaf

Marc wrote:
> Done...

I sent you the example that works using bccsdk.
Here is just the code for the rest of the folks who might be interested.
I had to make some changes in some sapi headers and add missing guids to 
sapi.lib.
Soon new minor release will be available with this update.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <tchar.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <comdef.h>
#include <sapi.h>           //For ISp definitions - part of SDK
#include <sphelper.h>       //For SPBindToFile

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

#pragma comment (lib,"comsupp.lib")

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct ole {
   ole(void): init(false) {
     init = SUCCEEDED(::CoInitializeEx (NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED));
   }
   ~ole(void){
     if (init) {
       init = false;
       ::CoUninitialize();
     }
   }
   bool isOK() {return init;}
private:
  bool init;

};

_COM_SMARTPTR_TYPEDEF(ISpVoice, __uuidof(ISpVoice));
_COM_SMARTPTR_TYPEDEF(ISpStream, __uuidof(ISpStream));

bool SpeakText(const char *str) {
  //This part with ole class is not needed in standard VCL app
  ole ol;
  if (!ol.isOK()) {
    return false;
  }
  bstr_t textToSpeak(str);
  ISpVoicePtr speaker;
  ISpStream *pStream = NULL;
  ISpStreamPtr stream;
  CSpStreamFormat     cAudioFmt;
  try {
    _com_util::CheckError(speaker.CreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice));
    _com_util::CheckError(speaker->Speak(textToSpeak,SPF_DEFAULT,NULL));

    _com_util::CheckError(cAudioFmt.AssignFormat(SPSF_22kHz16BitStereo));
    _com_util::CheckError(SPBindToFile(L"e:\\test.wav", 
SPFM_CREATE_ALWAYS, &pStream, &cAudioFmt.FormatId(), 
cAudioFmt.WaveFormatExPtr() ));
    stream.Attach(pStream);
    _com_util::CheckError(speaker->SetOutput(stream,TRUE));
    _com_util::CheckError(speaker->Speak(textToSpeak,SPF_DEFAULT,NULL));
    _com_util::CheckError(stream->Close());

  } catch (_com_error &e) {
   std::cout << e.ErrorMessage() << std::endl;
   return false;
  }
  return true;
}

int main(int , char** )
{
    return SpeakText("Yeah!") ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------