How do I write TTS files asynchronously?

The information in this article applies to:

• SpeechKit 4

Summary

The StartPlayback method provides 2 playback styles that determine whether control is returned once the request has been queued or after it is completed: CPSSynchronous and CPSAsynchronous.

When CPSAsynchronous is used, the synthesis must occur on a separate thread so control may be returned to the application once the request is queued. For non-COM component libraries (e.g., CDLL), this requires that the COM Initialization (CoInit) flag be set to 0 (Multithreaded) rather than it's default value of 2 (Apartment or Single). For example:

// C/C++
// Instantiate ChantSR object
m_pChantSR = new CChantSR(TRUE,0);
                

For VCL components, change the CoInit property value to 0 in the property palette.

More Information

The Microsoft SAPI APIs are COM APIs. To be able to invoke these APIs on multiple threads, the component library must initialize the COM environment to a multithreaded environment.