text mapping fails with Vista

  Mapping text no longer works with Windows Vista. The Agent character 
simply skips over the mapped text without voicing it at all, though it does 
appear in the balloon. Microsoft.com mentions the fact but does not give a 
useful way to solve the problem.

As an example in the javascript:

  Merlin.Speak("It's a another \\map=\"bee you tea
full\"=\"beautiful\"\\ 
day here in the Heartland.)";

 ... is spoken: "It's a day here...."

  I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone who uses javascript in 
Vista and has found a way to make this work the way it did with WinXP. The 
ability to have text read aloud is very useful to me, but only if it 
pronounced correctly.

Thanks a million,
 Rick 

  After spending a day on this problem and shutting down the computer last 
night, I find that the problem has resolved itself today. With all of the 
uninstalling a reinstalling of software trying to get it to work, I had 
forgotten my most basic boot-camp training; Did you try rebooting?

Thanks just the same,
Rick

"Richard Holland" <richolland@juno.com> wrote in message 
news:E31FD0E2-A1D6-4B57-B3EB-05D02AF6D58D@microsoft.com...
>  Mapping text no longer works with Windows Vista. The Agent character 
> simply skips over the mapped text without voicing it at all, though it 
> does appear in the balloon. 

"Richard Holland" <richolland@juno.com> wrote in message 
news:E31FD0E2-A1D6-4B57-B3EB-05D02AF6D58D@microsoft.com...

>  Mapping text no longer works with Windows Vista.

MSAgent uses SAPI 5 by default on Vista.  SAPI 5 uses a different set of TTS 
tags than SAPI 4 uses.  "\map" is a SAPI 4 tag.  SAPI 5 expects XML
instead 
of "slash" commands.  I do not know the exact syntax to make
"map" work on 
Vista, as I have never touched Vista myself, though.


Gambit