Microsoft Agent Downloads for Developers

Microsoft Corporation

March 1, 1999

New releases of LISET and the Character Editor. Details.

Contents
Microsoft Agent and language support
Text-to-speech engines
Speech recognition engines
Character data
Complete documentation set
The character and sound editors
Code samples

Note to developers: After the release of Microsoft Agent version 2.0, the version 1.5 character data files will be removed from the Microsoft servers. See the Microsoft Agent Character Data page for details.

Downloading and installing any Microsoft Agent components for your own use on a single machine is allowed by, and subject to, the terms of the End-User License Agreement.

Distributing any Microsoft Agent components, or downloading and posting any components for access by others, requires a valid License and Distribution Agreement.

Microsoft Agent and language support:

To download Microsoft Agent core or language components now, see the end-user download page.

To trigger an autodownload of the Microsoft Agent core components from a Web page, include the following tag on the page:

To trigger an autodownload of a Microsoft Agent language component from a Web page, include this tag on the page BEFORE the Agent control Object tag:

where XXXX is replaced with a Language ID from the following table:

Language	Language ID
Arabic	0401
French	040C
German	0407
Hebrew	040D
Italian	0410
Japanese	0411
Korean	0412
Spanish	0C0A
Simplified Chinese	0804
Traditional Chinese	0404

Note:

The <OBJECT> tag for a language component must precede the <OBJECT> tag for the Microsoft Agent core component.
Multiple languages can be installed on the same client.
Before setting the LanguageID of a character, we recommend that your script verify that the locale of the browser, available in the navigator.userLanguage property, matches the language being set.

Text-to-speech engines:

To download text-to-speech engines now, see the end-user download page.

To autodownload the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-To-Speech Engine from a Web page, use the following tag:

For details on using this speech engine with Microsoft Agent, read Microsoft Speech Engines for Microsoft Agent. You may also want to look at Other Speech Engine Support for information about third-party engines that support Microsoft Agent.

Speech recognition engines:

To download speech recognition engines now, see the end-user download page.

To autodownload the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine from a Web page, use the following tag:

Character data:

You can download the character data files (ACS format), which your applications and Web pages can use as local alternatives to loading character animation data from the Microsoft site.

You can download static and animated GIF files of each of the characters, to use in accordance with the terms of the End-User License Agreement.

To download character data, go to the Microsoft Agent Character Data page.

You can request the character files in ACF/ACA format, suitable for posting on a Web site, when you submit a Microsoft Agent Distribution License Agreement. This format is not available for downloading here.

The character and sound editors:

The Agent Character Editor lets you compose your own characters for use with Microsoft Agent.

Download the Microsoft Agent Character Editor (.exe file, 1.1MB).

The Linguistic Information Sound Editing Tool enables you to generate phoneme and word-break information for enhancing sound (WAV) files to support high-quality lip-syncing character animation.

Download the Microsoft Agent Linguistic Information Sound Editing Tool (.exe file, 6.4 MB).

Complete documentation set:

This set contains all of the developer's documents, all the end-user documentation, and the licensing and distribution agreements.

Download the complete Microsoft Agent documentation set in Microsoft Word (.doc) format (zipped, 524K).

If you need an unzip utility for the downloaded zipped document set, you can get a free evaluation copy of WinZip (http://www.winzip.com ). Note that Microsoft does not endorse this Web site or their software but provides this link as a suggestion. Please read Microsoft's official statement regarding third-party Web sites and software. Or you can go to any Internet search engine and type in “unzip utility” to get a list of unzip utilities available.

Code samples:

You can download code samples from the Microsoft Agent Visual Basic®, Visual C++® and Java Samples page. This is also the place to go if you want to download the C++ header files for Microsoft Agent.

Microsoft Agent HTML code samples can be viewed online.

Back to the Microsoft Agent home page

Back to the MSDN Online Downloads area