To use MSAgent, SAPI Text To Speech (TTS) or SAPI Speech Recognition (SR), certain resource support files must be available on your computer. If Word Explorer is running on your computer, you can check what is installed and what is not by doing the following.

To check what is available, select "Help | Support Files | What's Installed" from the Word Explorer Main Menu.

To check what is missing, select "Help | Support Files | What's Missing" from the Word Explorer Main Menu.

Note : Another way to check what Support Files are missing is by selecting "Options" from the Word Explorer Main Menu. If any of the Menu Options - MSAgent, Text To Speech (TTS) or Speech Recognition (SR) are disabled then it is most likely the required support files have not been installed on your Computer.

For many of the Word Explorer Word Games you will not need any of the Resource Support Files listed below. They have just been listed here for when you do.

We will be releasing a Word Explorer Resouce CD that will contain most of the Support Files listed below with a user friendly interface for installing them. Currently though the Resource CD is not available so all the required Support Files will need to be downloaded via the web site links provided below.

Click on the following links for Resource Support Files

MSAgent Support Files

This link will take you directly to the Microsoft MSAgent downloads page. These downloads are all free of charge from Microsoft. If you want to play any of the Languages Word Games you may need to download and install MSAgent Language files.

Available Languages are English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The sections to review on the web page displayed are

• Microsoft Agent and localization support
• Microsoft Agent Charater Files
• Text to Speech engines - You will need to download and install the Text to Speech engine for each language for MSAgent if you wish to use them in Word Explorer.

  Note : If when installing a particular Text to Speech engine, the inital screen that appears is in a languages you can't read or don't have appropriate fonts for, just select the left button which is always "Yes" to install. The right button is "No" and will cancel the installation.

• Microsoft Agent and localization support
• Microsoft Agent Charater Files

Other Web Site Links

• Microsoft Web Agent Ring - Contains many additional MSAgent characters you can download and use with Word Explorer.

SAPI5 Text ToSpeech (TTS) and Speech Recognition (SR)

This link will take you directly to the Microsoft SAPI5 downloads page for the required support files for SAPI5 Text To Speech (TTS) and Speech Recognition (SR). This includes Microsoft TTS engines in various English voices as well as the Microsoft Simplied Chinese TTS engine. Speech Recognition (SR) engines for English, Chinese and Japanese are also available.

Microsoft Readers also contain SAPI5 compliant TTS engines for English, German and French and can be downloaded using the following links

	Microsoft Reader
	Microsoft SAPI5 TTS Engines

Note : Installing SAPI5 TTS and SR files can be a little complicated. If the instructions provided on the Microsoft web pages are totally bamboozling, you might want to ask some one with a good understanding of computers to assist you.

Other Web Site Links

• The following link provides a good list of SAPI5 compliant TTS engines.

  SAPI5 Compliant TTS Engines

Fonts

Foreign Language Fonts may need to be installed on your computer when opening Word Lists or playing Word Games that use letters not contained in the standard ANSI character set. For example Chinese or Japanese characters. If you have the Arial Unicode MS font on your computer then that is a good one to use.

The are numerous web sites that provide fonts for different languages. If you type "Foreign Language Fonts" into a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, you will find many web sites providing Foreign Language Fonts that can be downloaded free of charge. Download and install these fonts as required.

Microsoft Data Access Components - MDAC

MDAC is required to use any of the Word Explorer Resource files ending with the ".wwr" extension. MDAC comes with all the Windows operating systems Word Explorer can be used with, so you should not need to install anything for MDAC. If however you are experiencing problems with using Reference or Association resources in Word Explorer, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version of MDAC. This link will take you directly to the Microsoft downloads page. These downloads are all free of charge from Microsoft.

The sections to review on the web page displayed are

• MDAC2.8
• Jet
• MDAC Utility : Component Checker is also useful in determining what version of MDAC you have on your machine.