Installing a Speech Engine
The Microsoft supplied speech engines can be installed by downloading the engines from the Downloads page at the Microsoft Agent Web site. When done using the Microsoft Internet Explorer you get the option to Run This Program From Its Current Location or Save This Program To Disk. If you choose Run This Program From Its Current Location, the engine will be installed directly. If, instead, you choose Save This Program To Disk, you can save the installation file to your disk. Opening this installation file will also install the engine.
For Web pages, you can author your page to automatically download install the engine by including an HTML Object tag on your page specifying the CLASSID and CODEBASE parameter.
<OBJECT width=0 height=0 CLASSID="CLSID:XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX" CODEBASE="#VERSION=X,X,X,X"> </OBJECT>
For the CLASSID parameter, specify the CLSID for the installation file. For the CODEBASE, specify the engine's version number. If you are not downloading the engine from the Microsoft site, you need to also include a URL.
The following are the installation file CLSIDs for the Microsoft supplied engines.
| Engine | CLSID | Version # |
|---|---|---|
| L&H TruVoice Text-To-Speech | B8F2846E-CE36-11D0-AC83-00C04FD97575 | 6,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - British English | 1D87F5B2-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Dutch | 1D87F5B3-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - French | 1D87F5B4-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - German | 1D87F5B5-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Italian | 1D87F5B6-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Japanese | 1D87F5B7-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Korean | 1D87F5B8-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Portuguese (Brazil) | 1D87F5BA-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Russian | 1D87F5BB-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| L&H TTS3000 Text-To-Speech - Spanish | 1D87F5B9-05F1-11d2-AD7C-0000F8799342 | 1,0,0,0 |
| Microsoft Speech Recognition | 161FA781-A52C-11d0-8D7C-00A0C9034A7E | 4,0,0,0 |
The descriptions of programming interfaces in this document follow the conventions for Microsoft VBScript. However, they should be generally applicable to other languages as well.