[ot] Windows programming

[Shane]

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

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