Using Microsoft Agent

In this mini-guide, we covered the basics of using Microsoft Agent to get your own mini assistant up and running. We explored basic agent techniques, character animation, text-to-speech technologies, plus word emphasis. The article then concluded with a quick printer-friendly code rundown.

If you're interested in taking your work with Agent even further, be sure to thoroughly check out the official website at www.microsoft.com/msagent/

You might also be interested in one wonderful article originally published by Visual Basic Developer magazine, showing you how to add speech recognition qualities to your agent, whilst wrapping it all up into a nice neat class. Read it online - msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/vb00f7.htm

Well, that's about all for this tutorial it simply remains for me to wish you all the best in using Agent oh, and I sincerely hope you have a real ol' laugh annoying them thar users.

Hehe...Toodle-pip!

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This article was originally published on November 20, 2002