The basic setup to be able to call the NVDA text-to-speech API on Win64 only.

Author: hrydgard

Common/Common.vcxproj

@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@
     <ClInclude Include="..\ext\libpng17\pnglibconf.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="..\ext\libpng17\pngpriv.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="..\ext\libpng17\pngstruct.h" />
+    <ClInclude Include="..\ext\nvda\x64\nvdaController.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="..\ext\vma\vk_mem_alloc.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="ABI.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="Arm64Emitter.h" />
@@ -552,6 +553,7 @@
     <ClInclude Include="Thread\ThreadUtil.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="Thunk.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="TimeUtil.h" />
+    <ClInclude Include="TTS\TTS.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="UI\AsyncImageFileView.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="UI\Context.h" />
     <ClInclude Include="UI\PopupScreens.h" />
@@ -996,6 +998,7 @@
     <ClCompile Include="Thread\ThreadUtil.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="Thunk.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="TimeUtil.cpp" />
+    <ClCompile Include="TTS\TTS.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="UI\AsyncImageFileView.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="UI\Context.cpp" />
     <ClCompile Include="UI\PopupScreens.cpp" />

Common/Common.vcxproj.filters

@@ -464,6 +464,12 @@
     <ClInclude Include="UI\PopupScreens.h">
       <Filter>UI</Filter>
     </ClInclude>
+    <ClInclude Include="..\ext\nvda\x64\nvdaController.h">
+      <Filter>ext\nvda</Filter>
+    </ClInclude>
+    <ClInclude Include="TTS\TTS.h">
+      <Filter>TTS</Filter>
+    </ClInclude>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <ClCompile Include="ABI.cpp" />
@@ -878,6 +884,9 @@
     <ClCompile Include="UI\PopupScreens.cpp">
       <Filter>UI</Filter>
     </ClCompile>
+    <ClCompile Include="TTS\TTS.cpp">
+      <Filter>TTS</Filter>
+    </ClCompile>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Filter Include="Crypto">
@@ -985,6 +994,12 @@
     <Filter Include="VR">
       <UniqueIdentifier>{9d1c29fd-8ac7-4475-8ea6-c8c759b695fe}</UniqueIdentifier>
     </Filter>
+    <Filter Include="TTS">
+      <UniqueIdentifier>{2f13e9d2-148c-4428-9954-c581d481742f}</UniqueIdentifier>
+    </Filter>
+    <Filter Include="ext\nvda">
+      <UniqueIdentifier>{a66dfba3-5469-458f-a89a-6341080421c8}</UniqueIdentifier>
+    </Filter>
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Text Include="..\ext\libpng17\CMakeLists.txt">

Common/TTS/TTS.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#include "ppsspp_config.h"
+
+#include <string>
+
+#if PPSSPP_PLATFORM(WINDOWS) && PPSSPP_ARCH(AMD64) && !PPSSPP_PLATFORM(UWP)
+
+#include "ext/nvda/x64/nvdaController.h"
+#include "Common/Data/Encoding/Utf8.h"
+
+void TTS_Say(const char *text) {
+	std::wstring wstr = ConvertUTF8ToWString(text);
+	nvdaController_speakText(wstr.c_str());
+}
+
+void TTS_Braille(const char *text) {
+	std::wstring wstr = ConvertUTF8ToWString(text);
+	nvdaController_speakText(wstr.c_str());
+}
+
+bool TTS_Active() {
+	return nvdaController_testIfRunning() == 0;
+}
+
+#else
+
+void TTS_Active() { return false; }
+void TTS_Say(const char *text) {}
+void TTS_Braille(const char *text) {}
+
+#endif

Common/TTS/TTS.h

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#pragma once
+
+// Wraps NVDA text-to-speech and possibly other TTS libraries later.
+//
+// If NVDA is unsupported on the platform or not activated, all the calls will just fail,
+// so we don't have to add checks all over the place.
+
+bool TTS_Active();
+void TTS_Say(const char *text);
+void TTS_Braille(const char *text);

Windows/MainWindow.cpp

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include "Common/Input/KeyCodes.h"
 #include "Common/Thread/ThreadUtil.h"
 #include "Common/Data/Encoding/Utf8.h"
+#include "Common/TTS/TTS.h"
 
 #include "Core/Core.h"
 #include "Core/Config.h"
@@ -471,6 +472,11 @@ namespace MainWindow
 	}
 
 	void UpdateWindowTitle() {
+		if (TTS_Active()) {
+			// Don't want to speak the whole version number in debug mode, etc...
+			SetWindowText(hwndMain, L"PPSSPP");
+			return;
+		}
 		// Seems to be fine to call now since we use a UNICODE build...
 		std::wstring title = windowTitle;
 		if (PPSSPP_ID >= 1 && GetInstancePeerCount() > 1) {

Windows/PPSSPP.vcxproj

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
       <AdditionalOptions>$(EXTERNAL_COMPILE_OPTIONS)</AdditionalOptions>
     </ClCompile>
     <Link>
-      <AdditionalDependencies>mf.lib;mfplat.lib;mfreadwrite.lib;mfuuid.lib;shlwapi.lib;Winmm.lib;Ws2_32.lib;dsound.lib;comctl32.lib;d3d9.lib;dxguid.lib;avcodec.lib;avformat.lib;avutil.lib;swresample.lib;swscale.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
+      <AdditionalDependencies>..\ext\nvda\x64\nvdaControllerClient64.lib;mf.lib;mfplat.lib;mfreadwrite.lib;mfuuid.lib;shlwapi.lib;Winmm.lib;Ws2_32.lib;dsound.lib;comctl32.lib;d3d9.lib;dxguid.lib;avcodec.lib;avformat.lib;avutil.lib;swresample.lib;swscale.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
       <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>../ffmpeg/Windows/x86_64/lib</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
       <GenerateDebugInformation>true</GenerateDebugInformation>
       <ProgramDatabaseFile>$(OutDir)$(ProjectName).pdb</ProgramDatabaseFile>

Windows/main.cpp

@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
 #include "Common/ConsoleListener.h"
 #include "Common/StringUtils.h"
 
+#include "Common/TTS/TTS.h"
+
 #include "Commctrl.h"
 
 #include "UI/GameInfoCache.h"
@@ -573,6 +575,8 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE _hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR szCmdLin
 
 	WinMainInit();
 
+	TTS_Say("Welcome to PPSSPP");
+
 #ifndef _DEBUG
 	bool showLog = false;
 #else
@@ -800,6 +804,7 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE _hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR szCmdLin
 	timeEndPeriod(1);
 
 	LogManager::Shutdown();
+
 	WinMainCleanup();
 
 	return 0;