Agents

mIRC supports Microsoft Agent if you have it installed on your system. An agent is an animated character that can speak text and perform actions.

Note: The agent dialog will only be visible if agent is already installed on your system. If it isn't installed, you can find links to related websites and resources, as well as download information, on the mIRC website.

The agent section in the options dialog allows you to change the way agent behaves and to specify the events that you want agent to speak.

Agent Settings

This main section of the agent dialog allows you to select your default agent character, the size of the character, and various display options.

The auto-hide feature hides the agent whenever mIRC is minimized, though note that if agent needs to speak it will become visible again.

Agent Events

You can enable agent for channel, private, and other events, and more precisely specify which events you want spoken in the Agent Events dialog.

Lexicon

The lexicon allows you to replace words or characters in spoken text with other words or characters, eg. you could replace :) with smiley face.

Speech Options

The speech settings allowing you to change the speed, pitch, and volume of spoken text.

The lowercase options change nicknames, channels, or the whole line of text into lowercase. This is useful since agent speaks uppercase characters as individual letters.

The ignore message feature stops agent speaking a line of text if the line contains a certain percentage of non-alphanumeric characters, ie. letters and numbers, which can happen when users play ascii text pictures.

The only speak if channel name has changed option stops mIRC from speaking the channel name for every message.