>>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

It doesn't, since it's not installed on my work PC.