TOOLSAMMLUNG :::> MsAgents & Co.
Sprachausgabe + Spracheingabe + Speechengines + Speech Recognition + AI

Schon etwas in die Jahre gekommen, ist dieses sprechende Windows-Extra,
die sogenannten Agents bzw. MsAgents. Avatare, Bots, Spachtools usw...
die Texte vorlesen oder auf Spracheingabe per Mikrofon, PC - Aktionen
ausführen können. Nachstehend eine kleine Übersicht von sog.
Speech-Engines, Bots und Artverwandtes ...


:::• Die Grundaustattung:

Welcome to Microsoft® Agent
HP: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/default.asp  

Microsoft Agent download page for end-users
HP: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.asp  

Try Out Microsoft Agent (Testseite)
HP: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/dev/code/TryMSAgent.asp  

Weitere MsAgents - Figuren (Characters - Chars) - Tools
• http://www.roeselhof.de/INFO/MSAGENT/index.htm  
• http://www.btinternet.com/~cabby/characters/index_home.htm  
• http://www.msagentring.org/setup.htm  
• http://www.msagentring.org/chars.htm  
• http://grandpajim.ath.cx  
• http://www.agentry.net/AgentryIndex.asp  
• http://www.agentland.com  

Info - Allgemeines
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-Agent  

:::• MS Entwicklertools:

Microsoft Agent download page for developers
HP: http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/developer.asp  

Speech SDK 5.1 - Entwicklungsumgebung und Engine (August 2001)
Below are links to the separate files available for this download.
Msttss22L.exe (2017 KB)
Sapi.chm (2338 KB)
SpeechSDK51.exe (69606 KB)
Sp5TTIntXP.exe (3580 KB)
SpeechSDK51LangPack.exe (83492 KB)
SpeechSDK51msm.exe (134666 KB)

Can Microsoft Agent characters speak using SAPI 5 text-to-speech engines?
No, Microsoft Agent was written to support SAPI 4 and the Speech
development team at Microsoft did not provide for any backward
compatibility in SAPI 5 for any prior versions.

Speech SDK 4.0a - Ältere Version
contains an earlier version of the Microsoft® Speech API (SAPI)
and former Whisper and Whistler speech engines.
However, Speech SDK 5.1 is recommended for speech development
HP: http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/old/sdk40a.asp  


PhantomSpeech (Sprachkomponente)
PhantomSpeech is a simple, flexible, robust, cross-platform, cross-language,
extensible, speech-engine vendor independent component that can be used
for enabling Text to Speech features in any application built in any COM
compatible language including Jscript,VBScript and VBA. PhantomSpeech
is a component built according to the Microsoft COM
HP: http://phantomspeech.sourceforge.net/phantomspeech.html  
DL: http://phantomspeech.sourceforge.net/PhantomInstall.zip  (Jul 2001 - 550 KB)


Archbot - A Chatterbot building Architecture
or "Bot Architecture" using XML, MSAgent, SAPI and WSH
Archbot is a chatterbot building system or "architecture" that allows the
user to build voice controlled, scriptable, animated chatterbots using XML
files that provide the bot's specifications. The user can type via keyboard
or speak via microphone to his/her computer, and have it talk back,
using an animated Agent, as well as execute scripts written in either
VBScript or JScript, that perform tasks, letting the user literally control his/her
PC by talking to it. Bots with different brains, personalities, and even different
genders can be built using this architecture.
HP: http://www.generation5.org/articles.asp?Action=List&Topic=Natural%20Language%20Processing
PP: http://www.generation5.org/content/2002/archbot.asp  
DL: http://www.generation5.org/content/2002/data/ArchBot.zip  

The Generation5 JDK (Java Development Kit)
is part of Generation5's committment to making artificial intelligence
and artificial life easy to understand and fun to explore. Take a look
at the demonstrations and screenshots to see what the JDK is capable of.
Then feel free to download the latest release and develop your own
applications or applets.
Generation5 JDK .:. Home & News
HP: http://www.generation5.org/jdk

:::• Andere Tools:

CSLU Toolkit Version 2.0 (release candidate 1)
a comprehensive suite of tools to enable exploration, learning,
and research into speech and human-computer interaction.
- development started in 1992
- has evolved to meet various needs
- free for research use
Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP Home and XP Professional
on Intel (or compatible) processors only.
What Tools are in the Toolkit?
- SpeechView speech visualization, editing, and labeling tool.
- BaldiSync synchronizes arbitrary speech with animated face’s mouth movements
- PSL Tools facilitates human perceptual experiments within RAD
- RAD
- Spectrogram Reading
- Speech Recognition (concepts, recognizer development)
- Robust Parsing
- PSL Tools
- TTS Demos
A number of patches and updates are available,
including a new English recogniser for children.

Freie Registrierung erforderlich!
HP: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/news.html  
DP: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/download/index.html  (~152MB)


Alicebot and AIML Software Implementations
Alice (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity)
is a natural language interface to a telerobot eye.
On this page you will find Alicebot engine implementations,
AIML knowledge bases, and AIML tools.
HP: http://www.alicebot.org/downloads