>>OK - I give up. I can make the agent move around on the screen, go through the gestures etc. When
>>I tell him to speak, I just get the text baloon - no text to voice. I am running VPP 7 on Windows 98.
>>Is there a missing componant, or do I just need some additional coaching?
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>Missing component, I think. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/products/msagent/downloads.htm and download the Text-to-Speech engine.

I had the exact same problem last week on my XP laptop and that was the solution. Do you know if there there is a way to detect the lack of this engine by reading the registry???