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Just so you know... The Soap Calculator now uses Microsoft Agent technology to provide a little extra help and to make using it more fun. What is this technology you might ask? Its the use of animated characters to make your experience more entertaining by interaction, and putting the character to work. The core files for this technology are already installed if you have Windows XP, 2000, or ME as your operating system, but a few support files will be needed to allow audible speech. These files can be downloaded below. On the other hand, if you are running Windows 98 you will have to download the core files along with the extra files listed below.

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows®Vista,XP,2000,ME, or Win/98
Pentium 100(MHz) PC (or faster)
Minimum 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM
Minimum 10 MB free disk space for the core components

Step 1: Install The Soap Calculator (4.46 MB) Build 28 released on 03-17-2008

Step 2: Install SAPI 4.0a runtime (824 KB) (Vista, XP, and 2000 ONLY!)

Download the above spchapi.exe setup program and run it to install the SAPI 4.0 runtime. The SAPI 4.0 runtime provides speech output so you can hear the MS Agent Characters voice through your speakers.

Step 3: Install the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech Engine (English version) (997 KB)

Download the above tv_enua.exe setup program and run it to install the TTS Engine. The Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine provides speech output so you can hear the MS Agent Characters voice through your speakers. Install with Vista, 2000, XP and Windows 98.

Step 4: Install Microsoft Agent Core Components version 2.0 (391 KB) (Windows/98 ONLY!)

Windows ME/2000/XP users can skip this step as these components are already installed on their systems.

Additional characters can be downloaded here.