>Ok, I think I made a complete mess of my PC. I downloaded several files from the link you send me. Now

>SET Classlib TO (HOME()+"ffc\_agent.vcx") addi
>PUBLIC msagent
>
>msagent=CREATEOBJECT("_agent")
>msagent.load("merlin","merlin.acs")
>msagent.setActiveAgent("merlin")
>msagent.show(680,400)
>
>msagent.activeagent.LanguageID="&H0409"
>
>*msagent.play("greet")
>msagent.speak("Hello Naomi")

>
>the agent appears, but it doesn't speak and instead of Hello Naomi shows just Hello. Nick's FoxSpeaker also stopped working...


I never installed Foxspeaker. You don't need Foxspeaker. I can make spoken agents with only these lines upper.

Try this link. The agent in this link speaks too.
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MicrosoftAgent~WIN_COM_API