SpCustomStream BaseStream Property (SAPI 5.4)

Microsoft Speech API 5.4

Object: SpCustomStream

BaseStream Property

The BaseStream property gets and sets the base stream object in a custom stream.

Syntax

Set:	SpCustomStream.BaseStream = IUnknown
Get:	IUnknown = SpCustomStream.BaseStream

Parts

• SpCustomStream
  The owning object.
• IUnknown
  Set: An Unknown variable that sets the base stream.
  Get: An Unknown variable that gets the base stream.

Example

The following Visual Basic form code demonstrates the use of the BaseStream property. To run this code, create a form with following control:

• A command button called Command1

Paste this code into the Declarations section of the form.

The From_Load procedure creates two voice objects. The Command1 procedure creates a new custom stream, uses the CreateStreamOnHGlobal API to create a new genetic Istream object, and sets the Istream as the custom stream's BaseStream property. Finally, it uses the first voice to speak a phrase into the custom stream, and then plays back the custom stream audio with the second voice.

  
Option Explicit

Dim V1 As SpeechLib.SpVoice
Dim V2 As SpeechLib.SpVoice
Dim C As SpeechLib.SpCustomStream

Private Declare Function CreateStreamOnHGlobal Lib "Ole32.dll" ( _
    ByVal hGlobal As Any, ByVal fDeleteOnRelease As Boolean, _
    ByRef ppStream As IStream) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim GeneticIstream As SpeechLib.IStream

    On Error GoTo EH

    'Create a genetic Istream object,
    'Use as custom stream's base stream
    CreateStreamOnHGlobal 0&;, True, GeneticIstream
    Set C = New SpCustomStream
    Set C.BaseStream = GeneticIstream

    'Set custom stream as voice's output stream
    'Make voice speak into the stream
    Set V1.AudioOutputStream = C
    V1.Speak "hello world"

    'Seek to beginning of stream, and speak stream
    C.Seek 0, SSSPTRelativeToStart
    V2.SpeakStream C

EH:
    If Err.Number Then ShowErrMsg
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Set V1 = New SpVoice    'Creates a custom stream
    Set V2 = New SpVoice    'Speaks the custom stream
End Sub

Private Sub ShowErrMsg()

    ' Declare identifiers:
    Dim T As String

    T = "Desc: " & Err.Description & vbNewLine
    T = T & "Err #: " & Err.Number
    MsgBox T, vbExclamation, "Run-Time Error"
    End

End Sub