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Reminds birthdays and other events using Microsoft Agent technology.
It can run at computer's start up or using a schedule task.
You won't miss birthday or holy any more.
You can be warn the number of days you want before the event(s) (To give you enough time to buy a gift).
Informations are stored in xml files, so you can make easy backup of all your family events.
Stored informations are the name, event, the sentence to say, and optionnaly email and phone number.
These optional fields allow to autoshow a ballon information, upper taskbar, containing phone number and a direct mailto link.
You can use all languages specified by microsft speech api.
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On the calendar panel, you have a global view of the events. The event days are shown by bold dates. A left click on it will show you the event(s) of the day (see screenshot).
A right click allow you to Add/Edit or remove event of list directly from this panel.
| Events are marked by a bold date, and on a left click on it, the event(s) are shown |  |
 | You can Add/Edit or Remove events directly from the calendar with a right click |
In the Event list panel, sort events depending, name date or event by a left click on column header. You can add/edit or remove events from the event list from this panel too.
You can specify the sentence too say for remaining days using variables _n_days (which is the number of remaining days) and _event (which is the event name).
Examples:
1)"_n_days days before _event" will be read as "4 days before mam's birthday" if it remains 4 days before event and the event name is "mam's birthday"
2)"_n_days jours avant _event" will be read as "4 jours avant l'anniversaire de maman" if it remains 4 days before event and the event name is "l'anniversaie de maman" (french translation)
You can specify too if a sentence will be read if there's no event in the following days. Just check the correponding option and enter the sentence to say.
To validate your changes just push the "Apply button"
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In the Startup options you can choose the way the application will automatically start:
- At computer startup (a link is added in your startup folder)
- As a schelduled task. It allow you to specify hour and day interval for application startup.
You can choose to read a random message in a message list of your choice. This message is read at startup, before event checking. Use the "Add" and "Remove" buttons to manage list
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Voice options allows you to change the agent character (they are located in your windows directory, in the folder msagent/chars/),
choose the language voice and language voice options (speed, context ...), and if you want to see ballon containing spoken text
You can check language configuration by making agent reading a test sentence.
Until you haven't click the "Apply" button, you can restore your previous configuration using the "Restore" button.
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Microsoft Agent Components
Notice : agent are still supported by Windows 7 !!! For this you need to install a specific hotfix.
For more informations see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969168
If you don t find Hotfix on Microsft website (very hard to find, are they trying to hide them ?), you can download them locally
MsAgent for 7 x86
MsAgent for 7 x64
You can use the following alternative too : Double agent is an open source project for adding support to Microsoft Agents on windows 7 http://doubleagent.sourceforge.net/
To add language/voice, download and install
- The language component: (no more supported since Vista)
- The corresponding text-to-speech engine: (Still supported by Seven)
System Requirements for all Windows :
- At least one Character (.acs file):
Other agents can be found at http://www.msagentring.org/chars.aspx
System Requirements for 7 :
MS Agent control http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969168
If you don t find Hotfix on Microsft website, you can download them locally
MsAgent for 7 x86
MsAgent for 7 x64
Specific System Requirements for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP users :
- SAPI runtime support
[Mirror]
Specific System Requirements for Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 users :
- Internet Explorer 4.0 or Above
- MS Agent 2.0 Control [Mirror]
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