Hey all, I have a Windows app I'd like to have a go at writing. Some here may be interested as well. It'd use the com0com project: http://com0com.sourceforge.net/ to emulate an accent SA or dectalk and pass the input of the serial port to sapi, basically enable softspeech via a virtual serial port. This could be assigned to vmware and Speakup would be able to use it as a hardware synth. Basically I want a self-contained laptop without having to hall around the Accent SA. Problem is, I'm used to programming under Linux where such an emulator would be trivial. Open a /dev/ttySx device, poll it, translate the input and call the speech functions. I'm just wondering what the simplest api to use under Windows would be for a Linux programmer without too much of a learning curve. I've looked at mfc and Windows c++ code and it looks like nothing I've ever encountered. I'm thinking a system like cygwin or minw32 would work but how complete is their emulation of serial ports (termios etc.) select/poll and do these unix like systems support the SAPI. Shane -- http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
