Working With Speech Using the MSAgent in C# - Microsoft Agent in C#

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To use MSAgent in C#, we have to add two DLL files to our project: AxAgentObjects.dll and AgentObjects.dll. The code to actually create and load an MSAgent character is simple:

AxAgent.Characters.Load("Genie",(object)"C:/Windows/Msagent/chars/GENIE.acs");
Character = AxAgent.Characters["Genie"];

//To set the language to US English.
Character.LanguageID = 0x409;

//This code displays the character.
Character.Show(null);

// Speak some text
Character.Speak ("Hello, how are you?",null);

Let's now look at a complete working example written in C#:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.WinForms;
using AgentObjects;

public class Hello: Form
{
private System.ComponentModel.Container components;
private System.WinForms.Button button2;
private System.WinForms.Button button1;
private System.WinForms.TextBox textBox1;
private AxAgentObjects.AxAgent AxAgent;


private IAgentCtlCharacterEx Character;

public Hello()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application.Run(new Hello());
}

private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
this.button1 = new System.WinForms.Button();
this.button2 = new System.WinForms.Button();
this.textBox1 = new System.WinForms.TextBox();
this.AxAgent = new AxAgentObjects.AxAgent();


AxAgent.BeginInit();

button2.Click += new System.EventHandler(button2_Click);


button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(88, 208);
button1.BackColor = (System.Drawing.Color)System.Drawing.Color.FromARGB(
(byte)255, (byte)128, (byte)128);
button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(152, 32);
button1.TabIndex = 1;
button1.Text = "Load character";

button2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(120, 240);
button2.BackColor = (System.Drawing.Color)System.Drawing.Color.FromARGB(
(byte)255, (byte)128, (byte)128);
button2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(96, 24);
button2.TabIndex = 2;
button2.Text = "SPEAK";

textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(48, 8);
textBox1.Text = " ";
textBox1.Multiline = true;
textBox1.TabIndex = 0;
textBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(248, 200);
textBox1.BackColor = (System.Drawing.Color)System.Drawing.Color.FromARGB(
(byte)255, (byte)128, (byte)128);
this.Text = "MSAGENT DEMO";
this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
this.WindowState = System.WinForms.FormWindowState.Maximized;
this.BackColor = (System.Drawing.Color)System.Drawing.Color.FromARGB(
(byte)255, (byte)192, (byte)192);
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(344, 301);

this.Controls.Add(button2);
this.Controls.Add(button1);
this.Controls.Add(textBox1);
this.Controls.Add(AxAgent);
button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(button1_Click);
AxAgent.EndInit();
}

protected void button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if(textBox1.Text.Length == 0)
return;
Character.Speak(textBox1.Text, null);
}
protected void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog.AddExtension = true;
openFileDialog.Filter = "Microsoft Agent Characters (*.acs)|*.acs";
openFileDialog.FilterIndex = 1 ;
openFileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true ;

if(openFileDialog.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.OK)
return;

try { AxAgent.Characters.Unload("CharacterID"); }
catch { }
AxAgent.Characters.Load("CharacterID", (object)openFileDialog.FileName);
Character = AxAgent.Characters["CharacterID"];
Character.LanguageID = 0x409;
Character.Show(null);
Character.Play ("announce");
Character.Speak ("welcome you sir",null);

}

}

The output from our simple MSAgent C# application looks like this:

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