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Microsoft Agents

mIRC now supports Microsoft Agent if you have it installed on your system. An agent is an animated character that can speak text and perform actions. Bringing a new way to utilize text-to-speech and voice recognition capabilities.

Microsoft Agent was specifically developed to require a minimum of computer resources. Computers of typical specification, manufactured in the past several years, should comfortably accomodate the requirements of Microsoft Agent.

Required:

Microsoft Windows� 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT� 4.0 (x86), or Windows 2000
Internet Explorer version 3.02 or later
A Pentium 100-megahertz (MHz) PC (or faster)
At least 16 megabytes (MB) of RAM
At least 1 MB free disk space for the core components
An additional 2-4 MB free disk space typically for each character you install.
An additional 32 KB free disk space for each language component (dll).

Recommended:

An additional 1.6 MB free disk space if you plan to use the Lernout & Hauspie� TruVoice Text-To-Speech Engine for speech output
An additional 22 MB free disk space if you plan to use the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine for speech input
A Windows-compatible sound card
A compatible set of speakers and microphone

Okay, your system meets the minimal system requirements for Microsoft Agents to run?
Here are the tools you need:

Download the Microsoft Agent core components — A required tool for Microsoft Agent to run.
Language support — For help with other languages other then English.
Text to Speech Engine — This file is required for Text-to-Speech capabilities.
Speech recognition software — You are not required to use this package, there are other speech programs that work with mIRC.
Speech control panel — Will add a Speech option on your control panel that will give you the ability to customize your installed agents and software.

To check to see if your mIRC is setup for MS Agent use this snippet.

Agent Characters

Peedy — Merlin — Genie — Robby

Third-party Agents (Not made by Microsoft)

The agent section in the options dialog allows you to change the way agent behaves and to specify the events that you want agent to speak. The agent dialog will only be visible if agent is installed on your system

Note for Windows 2000 Users: Agent is installed by default. All you will need to download is the speech recognition software if you wish to run it. Merlin comes installed by default, and the other three characters may be downloaded as well. The speech control panel cannot be installed under Windows 2000.

Note for Windows XP Users: Microsoft Agent uses SAPI 4.0 to provide speech services. Windows XP however now ships with SAPI 5.0 which does not provide backward compatibility support for its predecessor. Fortunately, SAPI 4.0 and SAPI 5.0 can co-exist together on the same Windows XP computer. To make the speech engines work with Microsoft Agent in Windows XP, first install the SAPI 4.0 runtime binaries, then install the particular speech engines.

After you have loaded all the required software for Microsoft Agents, you can test them in your browser by clicking here. Or from the Microsoft Agents test page.