Download Core Components (0.4 MB)
(Windows ME/2000 already have this pre-installed)
Required Microsoft Agent Components for Talking
Caller ID
REQUIRED COMPONENTS FOR TALKING CALLER
ID
(you need the core components, English speech engine and at least one character)
Download
Core Components (0.4 MB)
(Windows ME/2000 already have this pre-installed)
Download
English Speech Engine (1.0 MB)
(This is pre-installed on some OEM version of Windows ME. If
the character won't talk, download this file and run it.)
Genie [(c) 1996-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved.
For a nice chart showing exactly what you need based on your operating system, click here.
ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS FOR MICROSOFT AGENT
To install additional animated character for use with Talking Caller ID 32, you can download them here. After you download a file, run it to install that character. Then in Talking Caller ID, you can right click on the character and select Select Character.
To download the following characters, click on the picture of
the character.
Peedy [(c) 1996-1998
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.] is a parrot and is cool!
Merlin [(c) 1996-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.]is a wizard and
is very good.
To select different voices and/or languages, you will also need install the runtime binaries and Speech Control Panel below:
RUNTIME BINARIES
Install the Microsoft SAPI 4.0a runtime binaries (824 KB exe)
SPEECH CONTROL PANEL
I also recommend that you download speech control panel so you can train your voice and also change the pronunciation of words in the dictionary for text-to-speech output. Download it by clicking on the link below and then run the downloaded file to install it. You will then access this by going to the windows control panel and click in the icon.
Download
the Speech Control Panel (927 KB exe)
GET A LOT OF NEAT NEW VOICES USING THE ORIGINAL MICROSOFT SPEECH ENGINE
You can get a lot more voices for your Talking Caller ID by installing the original
Microsoft™ Speech Engine. These voices (male and female) sound very natural but they are not as accurate in pronunciation as the MSAgent
text to speech engine. To take advantage of the additional voices you must do
the following:
1. Download and install Version 6 of Talking Caller ID.
2. Download and Install the Microsoft™ Speech Engine. You can download it from
here.
When you are finished, run Talking Caller ID, go to Tools > Settings >
Audio tab. There is a drop down box called "Select Language and
Voice". This is where you can select from the various voices.
SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE
To enable the speech recognition feature of the program, you will need to download the speech recognition engine. You can click on the following link to download it. Then run the downloaded file to install it.
Download the
Microsoft® Speech Recognition Engine (.exe file, 6 MB).
FOREIGN LANGUAGES NOW SUPPORTED
You need both the Microsoft Agent language support file for your language, the Text-to-speech engine for your language and the runtime binaries shown above.
Microsoft Agent language files:
Dutch = AgtX0413
French = AgtX040C
German = AgtX0407
Italian = AgtX0410
Japanese AgtX0411
Korean = AgtX0412
Portuguses (Brazil) = AgtX0416
Russian = AgtX0419
Spanish = AgtX0C0A
Test-to-speech engines:
British English = lhttseng.exe
Dutch = lhttsdun.exe
French = lhttsfrf.exe
German = lhttsged.exe
Italian = lhttsiti.exe
Japanese = lhttsjpj.exe
Korean = lhttskok.exe
Portuguese (Brazil) = lhttsptb.exe
Russian = lhttsrur.exe
Spanish = lhttsspe.exe
Here are some more links where you can get more characters and/or information about
Microsoft Agent.
Robby [(c) 1996-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.] is a robot who
is hard to understand.