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Changes to the AP Speak Component

CA Automation Point currently includes a speech client component called AP Speak. AP Speak provides text-to-speech capabilities for messages sent from a remote CA Automation Point server. In previous releases, AP Speak relied solely on Microsoft Agent technology to perform the text-to-speech processing. Beginning with the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft Agent technology is no longer redistributed or supported by Microsoft. Due to this lack of support by Microsoft, we modified AP Speak component to use an alternative technology to provide text-to-speech capabilities on newer Microsoft operating systems. If you install AP Speak on a platform without Microsoft Agent technology, a new pop-up dialog displays instead of displaying the Microsoft Agent animated character. The text of the message is displayed within this new dialog, and the message text is also sent through the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) for text-to-speech processing.