INSTRUCTIONS:
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Click the "Show Demo" button to see what Merlin can do.
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Click the "Show" button to bring Merlin to life.
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Click the "Move" button to make Merlin move around your screen.
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Click the "Speak" button to make Merlin read what you type in the text box.
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Select a gesture and click the "Animate" button to see Merlins animations.
Note that some animations are looping, and you must hit the "Stop" button to end them.
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Click the "Move" button to make Merlin move around your screen.
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Click the "Hide" button to turn Merlin off.
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Click the "Merlin", "Peedy", or "Genie" to select a different
character file.
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Click
the "Listen" button to enable speech input. Character will
respond to "speak," "animate" and "demo".
Other voice commands will not be recognized.
NOTE: This sample loads its character data from a local path.
It will not work as written unless you download the file
MERLIN.EXE
which will install merlin.acs in the path \\windows\msagent\chars.
This will work with Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT/2000.
Download available characters: Merlin
Peedy Genie
It will also automagically download and install the Microsoft Agent ActiveX Control, the Lernout and Hauspie text-to-speech ActiveX
Control, and the Microsoft speech recognition engine.
Be not afraid, it's worth the wait.
Merlin for Active Desktop
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MSDN Web Workshop documentation and sample code
for Microsoft
Agent
Created by Doug
Peterman
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