Ah HAH, now it speaks. Good work Shawn. Now to automate and silently distribute the required executables and afflict my users with the damned talking parrot...

The problem was that the agent download nor the character download included the text to speech engine...

Found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/agent/agentdl.asp#tts

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