ANIMATION
MERLIN, ROBBY, GENIE AND PEEDY WITH ENGLISH, GERMAN FRENCH, DUTCH OR OTHER
LANGUAGES.
Click on the logo for an example of MS Agent.
You are asked only once to load and open
several files from the web page.
In the animations Merlin or one of his friends read written text and convert this to
spoken text via a Text-to-speech engine. On the web pages they speak English, German or
Dutch if the files needed there for are loaded and executed (choose by loading for opening
from the location).
Here is what you need to use these Pages:
- Windows® 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 (x86) with Direct X.
Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system have already Direct X.
- Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later. Netscape Navigator
does not support Microsoft Agent.
- A Pentium 100 MHz PC (or faster)
- At least 16 MB of RAM
- At least 661K free disk space for the Microsoft Agent components, 3.1 MB for Peedy, 1.8
for Merlin and an extra 1.34 MB for the L&H TruVoice Text-To-Speech machine.
- Windows XP users may also need to install the SAPI 4.0 runtime.
- A Windows-compatible sound card
- A compatible set loudspeakers and microphone (optional)
For the other Agent components, go to the Microsof Agent Downloads page.
On this page you can download the following files to reduce waiting
times by loading pages witch English, German or Dutch animation's:
a. Download Microsoft Agent
core component Dutch (395 kB)
b. Select character Merlin (1.8 MB) and
Peedy (3.3 MB)
Also for now: Robby (2.2 MB) and Genie (1.6 MB).
c. Select text-to-speak engine: Lernout &
Hauspie® TTS3000 Text-To-Speech Engine - Dutch (2.6 MB )
Also needed: Lernout &
Hauspie® TruVoice Text-To-Speech Engine - American English (1 MB )
Optional: Lernout &
Hauspie® TTS3000 Text-To-Speech Engine - British English (2.5 MB )
Optional: Lernout &
Hauspie® TTS3000 Text-To-Speech Engine - German (2.2 MB )
Optional: Lernout &
Hauspie® TTS3000 Text-To-Speech Engine - French (2.2 MB )
d. Download the Microsoft SAPI 4.0a
runtime binaries (824 KB )
Then you can then go to the animation pages.
Try first Peedy, Robbie and Genie on the Search Pages. Then Merlin on the Index Page, Merlin talks
about the Solar System and about Clocks and Time.
Try Dutch also: first Animatie Merlin
met engelse spraak, then Animatie
Merlin met nederlandse spraak and next Merlin vertelt over ons zonnestelsel
and Merlin vertelt over klokken en tijd.
See also Peedy, Robbie, and Genie on the Search page.
Try German also: Animation Peedy, Animation Merlin, Animation Robby and Animation Genie.
N.B. You can go also to these pages without first loading the needed
files. The files then automatically call you there for loading and opening from the web
page. This can take a lot of time, seen the total amount of mega bytes.
More characters for animation's with MS Agent on the web site of the
MS Agent ring.
Let your web pages speak for you.
Download now Shadisoft's Webspeak free trial version (3
Mb)