[C++] Reading from an IStream to a Buffer (Audio)

Question

I am basically trying to read the contents of an audio stream into a char * buffer to apply an FFT. I am using SAPI to simplify the transformations I will need to make after applying my FFT.

I have an IStream buffer I allocated on HGLOBAL

// Address of IStream* pointer variable that receives the interface pointer to the new stream object.
CComPtr<IStream> pMemStream;
// A memory handle allocated by the GlobalAlloc function, or if NULL a new handle is to be allocated instead.
HGLOBAL hGlobal = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, sizeof(pMemStream));
// Create stream object that uses an HGLOBAL memory handle to store the stream contents.
hr = ::CreateStreamOnHGlobal(hGlobal, TRUE, &pMemStream);

I then wrote wav contents to this stream

// Variable to receive ISpStream pointer
CComPtr<ISpStream> cpSpStream;
hr = cpSpStream.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpStream);
hr = cpSpStream->SetBaseStream(pMemStream, SPDFID_WaveFormatEx, defaultStreamFormat.WaveFormatExPtr());
hr = cpVoice->SetOutput(cpSpStream, TRUE);
hr = cpVoice->Speak(L"This is a phrase.", SPF_DEFAULT, NULL);

I can verify that the stream contains the wav contents by speaking the stream:

// Speak the modified stream.
cpVoice->SetOutput(NULL, FALSE);
cpVoice->SpeakStream(cpSpStream, SPF_DEFAULT, NULL);

However, when I try and get the buffer for the stream, I read only garbage data (all '=' in buffer).

IStream *pIstream;
cpSpStream->GetBaseStream(&pIstream);
STATSTG stats;
pIstream->Stat(&stats, STATFLAG_NONAME);
ULONG sSize = stats.cbSize.QuadPart;
ULONG bytesRead;
char *pBuffer = new char[sSize];
pIstream->Read(pBuffer, sSize, &bytesRead);

What am I doing wrong? This is driving me nuts.

Thanks,

-Francisco

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-Francisco Aguilera University of Washington Student | Prospective Computer Science Major | Microsoft Student Partner http://students.washington.edu/falven | http://www.facebook.com/falven

Answer 1

Let me make sure I understand what you're trying to accomplish.

You're using SAPI to do text-to-speech, using the Microsoft provided voice.

Then you want to apply some effects to the captured audio, and play it back.

Is that correct?

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Matthew van Eerde

Answer 2

Yes, that is correct. However, the default SAPI effects applied using XML in the string are not sufficient. I need to calculate the DFT and extract some information to be able to apply my custom transformations.

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-Francisco Aguilera University of Washington Student | Prospective Computer Science Major | Microsoft Student Partner http://students.washington.edu/falven | http://www.facebook.com/falven

Answer 3

After SAPI writes the stream, the stream position is at the end, so IStream::Read will set its "read" output to zero bytes.

Before reading from the stream, call IStream::Seek(zero, STREAM_SEEK_SET, NULL) and you will be able to read the data.

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Matthew van Eerde

Answer 4

Blogged a working sample which prints the values in the stream to the console.

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Matthew van Eerde

Answer 5

Worked great, thanks.
And great job on the Blog entry.

It is rather difficult to find information like this in bing/google for some reason.

-Falven

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-Francisco Aguilera University of Washington Student | Prospective Computer Science Major | Microsoft Student Partner http://students.washington.edu/falven | http://www.facebook.com/falven