Check out the MS Agent site on the following link.
http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/default.asp

In the right hand side column find a link for Left hand side Windows XP Users
Downloadn SAPI 4.0 Speech runtime support.
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/sapi/spchapi.exe


>Dear Sir,
>
>I have download Merlin.acs and have written following commands on the click event of command1. It works fine in Win98 but in WinXP Merlin appears and not speak anything.
>
>How will Merlin speak in WinXp?
>
>Please help
>
>

>thisform.oleAgent1.Characters.Load("MERLIN",
>"c:\windows\msagent\chars\merlin.acs")
>WITH thisform.oleAgent1.Characters("MERLIN")
>.MoveTo(100,50)
>.SHOW()
>.Play("Greet")
>.Speak("Hi! I am Merlin")
>ENDWITH
>