>Thanks. I may have to try it from home, since I don't have speakers on my work computer...
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>I tried it on my work PC, but nothing happened msagent.activeagent.LanguageID="&H0409" - this line produced an error, so I commented it out.
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>I guess I don't have these agents installed here. I can download from the MS web site, but it was just an attempt to help someone from another site, so I guess I better not spend that much time on it.

If you remove this line your parrot cannot be speak. :)
This is for english speak. There are some of other languages french, russian, german...

You have to install english speech engine. After that you cannot get that error anymore.