Peedy
Several Lime Ricky web pages
use Microsoft Agents here's what they are:
What is "Microsoft Agent"? Microsoft® Agent is a set of programmable software services that supports the presentation of interactive animated characters within the Microsoft Windows® interface. Websites can use characters as interactive assistants to introduce, guide, entertain, or otherwise enhance their Web pages or applications.
If you've never downloaded or installed Microsoft Agent before, you will be prompted to download and install Microsoft Agent. Please accept when your browser asks you to install Microsoft Agent. It may take a few minutes the first time depending on your internet speed.
Click here to Automatically
Download the agent Software.
The Lime Ricky Pages that use agents are:
Free Coupons, Old time photos, Wildwood Free Home Page, Contests, and of course, our Cool page. In some cases you may wish to restart your browser and computer to get these agents to work. Why do all this work? These guys are really cool and kids really love them!!!
You can also download the agent step by step below:
System requirements
Windows® 9x, Windows NT® 4.0 (x86), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or later
Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later
A Pentium 100-MHz PC (or faster)
At least 16 MB of RAM
At least 1 MB free disk space for the core components
An additional 2-4 MB for each character you install.
An additional 32K for each language component (dll).
Recommended:
An additional 1.6 MB free disk space if you plan to use the Lernout & Hauspie® TruVoice Text-To-Speech Engine for speech output
An additional 22 MB free disk space if you plan to use the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine for speech input
A Windows-compatible sound card
A compatible set of speakers and microphone(optional)
STEP 1
Install Microsoft Agent Core Components
version 2.0 (395K)
WINDOWS 2000 and Windows Me Users
skip this step. The Microsoft Agent Core Components are already installed
on Windows 2000 and Windows Me.
Download the above MSAgent.exe
setup program and run it to install the core components. You may
then delete the setup program.
STEP 2
Install
the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice,
Text-to-Speech
Engine (English version) (1MB).
The Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine provides speech output capabilities for Microsoft Agent so you can hear what the characters are saying through your sound speakers.
Download the above tv_enua.exe setup program and run it to install the TTS Engine. You may then delete the setup program.
If you've already installed this,
you should see
Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice
American English TTS Engine
in the Control Panel's Add/Remove
Programs list.
STEP 3 (OPTIONAL)
Install
the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine,
version
4.0 (6MB)
This step is optional. You can download this later.
The Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine provides speech input capabilities for Microsoft Agent. This allows you to speak to characters through a microphone. However, Microsoft Agent must be specifically programmed to understand and interact with what you are saying. Microsoft Agent does not support dictation.
Download the above actcnc.exe setup program and run it to install the TTS Engine. You may then delete the setup program.
If you've already installed this,
you will see
Microsoft Agent Speech Recognition
Engine 4.0 (English)
in the Control Panel's Add/Remove
Programs list.
STEP 4
(OPTIONAL)
Install
the Microsoft Speech Control Panel
(840K)
This step is optional. You can download this later.
The Speech Control Panel will add an icon to your Control Panel to enable you to list the compatible speech recognition and text-to-speech engines installed on your system and customize their settings for your use.
STEP 5
Download
some Microsoft Agent Characters
There are many Agent characters
available and many more are being created. Now that you have Microsoft
Agent installed on your computer, you only have to download additional
Characters (files with .ACS extensions) as they become available and save
them to your
C:\WINDOWS\MSAGENT\CHARS or C:\WINNT\MSAGENT\CHARS
folder, depending on your operating system.
Have Fun!!!
Welcome to the wonderful world
of Microsoft Agent...
Heres the link to the character
Lime Ricky uses:
http://www.msagentring.org/download.asp?char=peedy
