SmartButler
Download latest beta build of SmartButler from CNET Download.com (1.77 MB) 
- Version 2.00.012 beta (November 29 2007).
- Added Yahoo! Messenger 9 beta support.
- Setup now checks for required and optional Speech / MS Agent components installed and allows selecting and downloading them if needed.
- ANSI and UNICODE modules are shipped in a single setup file.
- and more... (See changes history here)
Works on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Alternative Download
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Download SmartButler (1.30 MB))
- Version 1.17.007 (December 28 2006).
This is a maintenance build: in this build all hardcoded URLs point to smart-butler.net (in older builds they point to smart-butler.com) - automatic
downloading of components and license key requests should work now.
Works on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
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TextToWav
- Download TextToWav from
CNET Download.com (748 KB)
- Version 1.4 (December 5, 2007), for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Reads aloud or converts texts to WAV/MP3/WMA files using Microsoft SAPI4/SAPI5. Could be used for creating audio-books.
Free for personal use.
Alternative Download
* TextToWav uses LAME MP3 Encoder (http://www.mp3dev.org)
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Trillian Pro 2.x plugin
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Download Trillian Pro plugin (165 KB)
- Version 2.6 (March 19, 2005)
Requires SmartButler v1.16.021 or later installed.
Please let us know if you experience problems with this build.
* The latest beta build of SmartButler includes an updated version of Trillian Pro plugin. Read more details here.
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Download older version of Trillian Pro plugin (160 KB)
- Version 2.0 (March 14, 2004)
Requires SmartButler v1.16 or later installed.
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Miranda plugin
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Download Miranda plugin (beta version, 389 KB)
- Version 1.0.0.4 (September 20, 2006)
Requires SmartButler v1.17.006 or later installed.
Please let us know if you experience problems with this build.
* The latest beta build of SmartButler includes an updated version of Miranda plugin. Read more details here.
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Download previous version of Miranda plugin (beta version, 158 KB)
- Version 1.0.0.3 (March 19, 2005)
Requires SmartButler v1.16.021 or later installed.
Please let us know if you experience problems with this build.
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Download previous version of Miranda plugin (116 KB)
- Version 0.1 (April 14, 2004)
Requires SmartButler v1.16 or later installed.
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Microsoft Outlook 2000-2003 addin
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Download Microsoft Outlook add-in (beta version, 360 KB)
- Version 0.4 (August 17, 2004)
Requires SmartButler v1.16 or later installed.
Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP/2003 (Does not work with Microsoft Outlook
Express)
Please let us know if you experience problems with this build
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Microsoft Word 2000-2003 addin
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Download Microsoft Word add-in (beta version, 327 KB)
- Version 0.1 (September 25, 2004)
Requires SmartButler v1.16 or later installed.
Works with Microsoft Word 2000/XP/2003. (Current build was tested with Microsoft Word XP only).
Please let us know if you experience problems with this build
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Text-to-Speech engines
- Lernout & Hauspie ® voices (SAPI 4)
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American English
Listen sample: Adult Male #1 (American
English)
Listen sample:
Adult Male #2 (American English)
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Adult Male #3 (American English)
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Adult Male #4 (American English)
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Adult Male #5 (American English)
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Adult Male #6 (American English)
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Adult Male #7 (American English)
Listen sample:
Adult Male #8 (American English)
Listen sample:
Adult Female #1 (American English)
Listen sample:
Adult Female #2 (American English)
British English
Listen sample: Adult Male #1 (British
English)
Listen sample: Adult Female #1 (British
English)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese-Brazil
Russian
Spanish
- Microsoft voices (SAPI 4)
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American English (7.31 MB)
Listen sample: Microsoft Sam
Listen sample: Microsoft
Mike
Listen sample: Microsoft Mary
- Microsoft voices (SAPI 5.1, works with SmartButler v1.16.005 or later in "SAPI 5.x" mode)
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American English (3.73 MB)
Listen sample: Microsoft
Sam
Listen sample: Microsoft
Mike
Listen sample: Microsoft Mary
- AT&T Natural Voices (commercial, SAPI 4 - SAPI 5.1)
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AT&T Natural Voices are the worlds most advanced and
human sounding Text To Speech (TTS) voices.
Minimum system requirements are a 300 MHz Processor with 256mb RAM
and 1GB Free Disk Space.
Languages available: American English, UK English, English Indian
Accent, Latin American Spanish, German, French.
Listen sample: AT&T
Crystal16
Listen sample: AT&T
Mike16
- Cepstral Voices (commercial, SAPI 5.x)
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Cepstral Voices are quality award winning small-footprint human sounding Text To Speech voices.
Minimum system requirements are a 400 MHz Processor with 128mb RAM and 200 MB Free Disk Space.
Languages available:
US English, UK English, Canadian French, German, Americas Spanish.
Listen sample: Cepstral Amy
Listen sample: Cepstral Duncan
- NeoSpeech Voices (commercial, SAPI 5.x)
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NeoSpeech Voices are very advanced and
human sounding Text To Speech voices.
Minimum system requirements are a 400 MHz Processor with 128mb RAM
and 1GB Free Disk Space.
Languages available: English only.
Listen sample: NeoSpeech Kate16
Listen sample: NeoSpeech Paul16
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Microsoft Agent characters
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invisible.acs (453 bytes, for SmartButler v1.16.008 or later)
invisible_old.acs (799 bytes)
- The invisible character is for those who do not want to see any
character on desktop when SmartButler speaks.
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musya3d.acs (1.83 MB)
- Created by Massimiliano Uguccioni
- Microsoft's characters
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Genie (1.6 MB)
Merlin (1.8 MB)
Peedy (3.3 MB)
Robby (2.2 MB)
- More
characters...
- Download other characters from MS Agent Ring.
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Components
- Troubleshooting Downloads
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Microsoft Agent 2.0 core component
Microsoft Speech API 4.0 core component
Microsoft Scripting Engine 5.6
DCOM 98
Active Template Library (for 9x)
Active Template Library (for NT)
MSVCRT.DLL
REGSVR32.EXE
InstMsiA.exe (Windows Installer v2.0 for Windows 98/Me)
InstMsiW.exe (Windows Installer v2.0 for Windows NT4/2000)
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Other
- Supported Messengers
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Miranda Instant Messenger
Trillian Pro 2.x-3.x
Windows Live™ Messenger (MSN)
GoogleTalk Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger
ICQ (English)
PalTalk
Skype chat (SmartButler 2.0.11 or later)
ActiveWorlds 3.6 and 4.1 chat (SmartButler 2.0.11 or later)
Cybernet Worlds 3.6 chat (SmartButler 2.0.11 or later)
Windows Messenger 5.1
MSN Messenger 6.2-7.x
- Recommended programs
Mozilla Firefox browser
