SAPI5 Event returns 42 instead of 0

Question

I am using SAPI5 COM, and there is one event called

Word(ByVal StreamNumber As Long, ByVal StreamPosition As Variant, ByVal CharacterPosition As Long, ByVal Length As Long)

It works fine, but CharacterPosition starts off with 42, and I have no idea why it doesn't start off with 0 or 1.

The docu say:

CharacterPosition The character position in the input stream one character before the start of the word. In the case of the first word in a stream, this parameter is zero.

But for me, it always starts with 42, no matter which voice I use.

Does anybody know what might cause this?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I found the reason:

The stupid SAPI5 engine takes the tags into account.