Text to speech on Windows

Would it be possible to write a C or C++ application that would call the Microsoft Speech application passing it a text string that the Speech application would convert to sound and "speak" that text?
If so what would the call to the Speech application look like?

Text to speech SAPI5.3 tutorial

Good idea. Perhaps, i should work this project during my final year. Do you have the same library which is .net or open source ?

Thanks.

There is a .net version. I dont use .net so know very little about it other than it exists but there should be plenty of documentation on MSDN.

Thanks.