Microsoft Agent supports textual captioning of spoken output using a cartoon word balloon. A character's initial word balloon window defaults are defined and compiled in the Microsoft Agent Character Editor. Once running, the word balloon's Enabled and Font properties may be overridden by the user. If a user changes the word balloon's properties, they affect all characters. You can access the properties for a character's word balloon through the Balloon object, which is a child of the Characters collection.
The Balloon object supports the following properties:
BackColor, BorderColor, CharSet, CharsPerLine, Enabled, FontName, FontBold, FontItalic, FontSize, FontStrikeThru, FontUnderline, ForeColor, NumberOfLines, Visible