Microsoft^® Agent

For Windows versions prior to Windows XP, you can go to the Agent 2.0 Core components page (or just download the agent server setup)

For Windows 7, Microsoft^® Agent is available only by request.  You need to request the hotfix for KB969168, wait for a response from Microsoft, download the hotfix, and then install it.

The Microsoft characters

Genie

Merlin

Peedy

Robby

Speech engines

The SAPI 4 runtime (required for Microsoft® Agent to speak on Windows® XP)

SAPI 4 speech engines (for Windows® XP)

English (United States) text-to-speech
English (Britain) text-to-speech
Dutch text-to-speech
French text-to-speech
German text-to-speech
Italian text-to-speech
Japanese text-to-speech
Korean text-to-speech
Portuguese (Brazil) text-to-speech
Russian text-to-speech
Spanish text-to-speech

Microsoft speech 4.0 recognition engine (English)

Microsoft speech 4.0 control panel

SAPI 5 speech engines (for Windows® Vista and later)

Mary - female voice (English)
Mike - male voice (English)
Sam - male voice (English)

Language packs

These language packs only apply to Windows XP or earlier.  For Windows Vista or later, Microsoft^® Agent no longer supports multiple languages.

Arabic
Basque
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese (traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Romanian
Russian
Slovakian
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish