unsigned char's

hey,

I havent used unsigned char's a lot but need to get something finished fast so dont have the time to get aquanted... I have an app that is a text to speach simulator and I need to concatenate sounds to create a word.  The sound data is stored with unsigned char's(BYTE*) and I'm unsure as to how I can build the word.  I've tryed using CStrings to do the job instead, but the data hasen't come out well and the sound player gets errors. Heres where I'm adding the sounds. (sorry if it doesnt format well.)


CString word;            //word data
int phonemeNum = 0;            //Num of phoneme to add to word
int from = 0;      //pointer to start of current phoneme
int wordLength = 0;            //word char length
CString input;

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while(from < input.GetLength())
                  {
                        //speech synthesis
                        phonemeNum = get_phoneme(input, from);

                        //debug
                        cout << phonemeNum << " ";

                        int idx = phonemeNum;

                        //Add phonemes together to create word (Overlap phonemes)
                        //if space phoneme, play word... clear word...
                        if (phonemeNum != 52){      
                                    //*** If not space *** (add phoneme to word)
                              int len = phoneme[idx].get_len();      //get length
                              wordLength = wordLength + len;            //add length to word length
                              unsigned char* data = new unsigned char[len];      //create char
                              memcpy(data, (unsigned char*)(phoneme[idx].get_data()), len);      //put data into char
                              CString temp = data;                        //convert datato CString
                              word = word + temp;                              //add data to end of word
                        }else{      //*** If space *** (play word)
                              unsigned char* wordData = new unsigned char[wordLength];      //create char the size of the word
                              LPCTSTR tempWordData = word;                                                //change word to const char
                              memcpy(wordData, (const char*)(tempWordData), wordLength);      //place word in unsigned char
                              
                              //cout << LPCTSTR(word);
                              //cout << wordLength;

                              /*****- Play Word -*****/
                              wave.AddRef();
                              wave.SetFormat(      phoneme[0].get_rate(),                  // sample rate
                                                      phoneme[0].get_bytepersec(),            // data rate
                                                      phoneme[0].get_bytesample(),            // bytes/sam,
                                                      phoneme[0].get_bitssample());            // bits/sam
                              wave.Load(wordData, wordLength, phoneme[0].get_bitssample());
                              wave.Play();
                              wave.Release();

                              wordLength = 0;
                              word = "";
                        }
                      }


This code is a bit sloppy... but I don't know how else I can concatenate the sounds(phonemes)...?