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Microsoft Agent Characters
Microsoft Agent Animated, Talking Characters
 

UCSH is an easy-to-use scripting helper for classic animated desktop characters. It lets you load characters, preview animations, write speech, play scripts, and build presentations using both Microsoft Agent and Microsoft Actor characters.

Some uses for these captivating technologies include talking websites, interactive presentations, video content, tutorials, tour guides, clipboard and text file readers, and just plain fun.

  • Experiment with character animations, speech, movement, gestures, word balloons, character sizes, idle animations, and sound effects.
  • Create and edit UCSH/ATS-style scripts for Microsoft Agent and Microsoft Actor characters, as well as open and edit existing .ATS and many basic .MSH scripts.
  • Use built-in tools for character properties, animation previews, TTS voices, speech tags, sound effects, WAV speech, singing, downloads, modules, backgrounds, and script playback.
  • Add presentation-style features such as screen effects, tint effects, fade transitions, backgrounds, delayed playback, global stop, and Show and Tell character demonstrations.
  • Use the welcome window, guide window, startup options, character folders, refreshed character lists, and the built-in tour to get started more easily.
  • Recover work automatically with script backup and auto-recovery support, and use script repair to fix many common script errors.

UCSH Screenshot
 

Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11

 

 
 What is Microsoft Agent?
JamesMicrosoft Agent version 2.0 provides unprecedented technology to create innovative, new conversational interfaces for applications and Web pages. It provides powerful animation capability, interactivity, and versatility, with incredible ease of development.

Microsoft Agent is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows for users to interact with animated characters inside applications and web pages. It used text to speech engines to allow the animated characters to speak to the end user. These animated characters were called "Microsoft Agents". It came preinstalled with Windows beginning with Windows 2000, though it was first incorporated into a build of Windows with Windows 98 build 1569. Microsoft Agent continued to release alongside all Windows versions until Windows 7 in 2009, following Microsoft's discontinuation of Microsoft Agent. The latest major release of Microsoft Agent was version 2.0 on October 12th, 1998.

For more information, visit:

Agentpedia, the Microsoft Agent encyclopedia

The Microsoft Agent Frontier Home Page

The Microsoft Agent Ring

The Microsoft Agent Forums

 

 What are the system requirements?
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later
  • .NET Framework 4.0 (pre-installed on modern Windows)
  • Microsoft Agent 2.0 Core Components
  • 182 MB of free space

  • NOTE: Some features of the program, such as Screen Effects and YouTube to Wave require Windows Vista or later.

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Microsoft Agent Frontier Ring

Microsoft and the Microsoft Agent Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
"Max" character, Copyright © 1999 RayFlex Animation
"James" character, Copyright © 1999 La Cantoche Production
All other Characters are Copyright by their respective creators/owners.