Hi Tariq,

That should be related to the speech engine installed. You should make sure you have the correct one
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/sapi/spchapi.exe
and might need to uninstall/reinstall it.


Also look at Troubleshooting page here:
http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/support/user/tts.asp#windowsxp

>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
>