A while back (2003ish I think) I wrote a DLL extension for Game Maker. Although a lot has changed Game Maker wise, I thought I’d give it a home and a permanent link due to people in the forums still asking about it. You can download it here. Game Maker Text to Speech DLL.
All help/support should be included with the file. Please don’t ask me for help, since I’ve lost my knowledge of Game Maker from being away from it for so long. Who knows, I might make a return. 
Just got back from the comp !!!
How it worked was, there was nine problems presented and in a five hour gap you had to solve all these problems with a chosen language (java, c/c++ and c#). I was teamed up with an old Uni mate, and a new person who I met, Anoop. We all worked wonderfully together and tackled the problems. Pretty exciting too since we could see the scores of the people participating in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Tasmania and New Zealand in realtime.
I arrived late at 10:20am, however just on time for the practice questions. We blazed through them, no problems. Then, the pizza lunch. But me being picky with my foods, ditched the lunch to go print some ’secret notes’ for the competition !!! Wasn’t going to miss out on much, probably all this meat shizznit. The stealth notes printed I entered back into the lab with my team to prepare for the comp around 12ish.
So we started out nicely, wrote some algorithms down on paper, sorted out what we thought would be easiest to solve… ended up with 0 problems apparently solved, even though we had working solutions (well, we thought we did) for four of them, they didn’t run with the extra test cases on the “Judges Machine”. However some cool things were happening, we were supplied drinks of our choice (soft drinks, etc). Sugary food was provided along with apples and bananas !!!
But really, this wasn’t a waste of time at all !!! Learned a lot, also recieved the following things:
)Will hit it up next year and actually practice this time. The team who won (Six questions solved) practiced hardcore for a few weeks straight, and will head onto the nationals I think. Good luck to them!
Now time to sit and relax, space out. Maybe play some more Final Fantasy Dissidia!!! Awesome game if you are a Final Fantasy fan.
