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Chronos Clock makes use of the Microsoft Agent to speak the time and announce Alarm Messages, if it is installed on your system. The Agent is an animated character that can speak text and perform actions. |
Note: The Microsoft Agent is supported on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. However with effect from Windows 7, the Microsoft Agent will no longer be supported and will not run. In light of this, Chronos Clock will continue to make use of the MS Agent in earlier versions but not for Windows 7 and future Windows versions.
In order to use the Microsoft Agent you must have installed a text to speech engine and one or more character files.
Please note that all the files required are copyright Microsoft Corporation and you will have to accept their license agreement before downloading. Depending on your operating system you then need to proceed as follows:
| Actions | Windows 2000 | Windows XP/2003 | Windows Vista (See note below) |
| Step 1 | Install the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text to Speech Engine - American English (1MB) | Install the Sapi 4.0 speech support | Install the Sapi 4.0 speech support |
| Step 2 | Install one or more Microsoft Agent Characters. See below | Install the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text to Speech Engine - American English (1MB) | Install the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text to Speech Engine - American English (1MB) |
| Step 3 | Install one or more Microsoft Agent Characters. See below | Install one or more Microsoft Agent Characters. See below | |
| Notes | Windows Vista has a version of the MS Agent installed that uses the newer sapi version 5. Installing version 4 is only needed if you want to use sapi 4 voices. |
These are:
If you search on the Internet you will find lots of other Agents available, one such site is at http://www.msagentring.org/chars.aspx Make sure that you install these into the Microsoft Agent Characters directory (usually called Windows\Msagent\Chars\ ) otherwise Chronos Clock will not detect them.
Copyright: The characters Genie, Merlin, Robby, and Peedy are Copyright © 1996-2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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