Text-to-speech in C++

I've searched the forums and found a couple topics.. but none of them contained answers... one contained borken links to msdn, and i tried to navigate to it manually in msdn but found nothing...

What is the simplest way to do text-to-speech in a simple win32 app... this only needs to work for XP boxes...

Thanks :)

The simplest? Record someone saying every word in the English language, and then play the appropriate sound snippet for each word encountered.

Yes, it's far from ideal, not smart, and a massive job. But it sounds pretty simple to me :D

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/titles/voice4.htm

Look into SAPI