Vox Proxy brings presentations to life with talking animated characters, helps emphasize key points, interacts with the presenter and audience, and creates fun and engaging presentations. It is easy for the average PowerPoint user to create dynamic interactive presentations that captivate audiences with characters that speak, move, and gesture.

Applications and Uses
Let the agent characters narrate an entire presentation for you! Uses are limited only by the imagination. Vox Proxy has widespread applications for any profession including:

3-D Character Features
Script characters on any slide to speak, move, and perform various animations. Vox Proxy comes with 27 3-D animated characters and provides services through design affiliates to develop custom characters. Some of the character features include:

Speech: Characters speak your scripted text using a text to-speech (TTS) engine. The character's mouth moves realistically while it speaks. Record speech using a microphone and have the character speak in your own voice. Vox Proxy comes with American English and ten other languages. Additional languages are available from Microsoft and other vendors.

Animations: Each character performs an extensive list of animations. Simply right click on the character to view all selections. If desired, multiple characters can perform simultaneous animations.

Movement: You can script characters to move on the screen and control their speed of movement. Specify a character's location by simply dragging and dropping it on the slide. Each character moves using its own specially designed animations.

Interact with PowerPoint Features: While scripting the characters, you can interact with PowerPoint features. For example, you could have the character speak, gesture, bring up your next slide (activated by a mouse click), synchronize characters with your presentation, and change to a specific slide. (See script example below.)

Voice Commands: Produce an interactive slide show by scripting characters to respond to voice commands using a microphone attached to your computer. If a microphone isn't available, a menu selection of commands can be used.

Script Writing Features
Vox Proxy's Script Writer has an amazingly intuitive Wizard that allows you to develop your entire script from drop-down menus. The only thing you need to type is the speech text itself.

Vox Proxy uses a highly simplified, yet very powerful script to control agent characters and other features on each slide. Scripts are simplified by defaulting nearly everything necessary for control of the characters. You can change slides or call up PowerPoint animations within the script. Here's a sample:

Multiple characters are controlled just as easily. Vox Proxy's smart defaults automatically take care of timing issues like characters waiting for each other or making sure PowerPoint's animations wait for the character, yet it provides you with simple options to allow simultaneous activities.

The characters themselves have a unique development menu that also helps simplify writing a script. By right clicking on a character, you can select a drop-down list of animations that the character will then demonstrate. When you find the animation you want, a single click will place the selected animation command into your script. Another selection on the right-click menu will insert a command into the script that will move the character to that location, or show a new character.

Slide and Script Editing Features
Vox Proxy delivers a convenient development environment. Think of a script as simply a hidden text box on each slide. The text in this text box is the script. You edit this text using Vox Proxy's Script Writer. The script and slide appear side-by-side on the screen. This layout provides a very convenient environment for creating and editing slide shows. Like any other text box, scripts are saved within the slides if you move or copy them.

Advanced Features

Script Macros
Vox Proxy lets you write script macros that are not associated with any PowerPoint presentation. You can execute Macros from a hyperlink (on a slide, in a document or from any application that supports hyperlinks), an action setting, a shortcut, or by double-clicking on the macro file from WindowsÒ ExplorerÒ.

Free Vox Proxy Player
Vox Proxy comes with a free distributable player program. This player may be copied and installed on other computers, so presentations can be run without the user having to purchase Vox Proxy.

Speech Pronunciation Dictionary
Vox Proxy's Pronunciation Dictionary allows you to set up a list of special words or phrases whose pronunciation by the TTS Engine may not be what you want. These words and phrases will appear normally in your script (and in the characters' speech balloons), but will be automatically "mapped" to a different pronunciation when spoken by a character. The pronunciation dictionary contains a "global" list, which applies to all presentations as well as a "local" list, which applies just to the presentation or macro you're using.

Media Files
Vox Proxy script commands are available for audio, video, and Flash movies. Automatic timers simplify character narration of media. Audio volume can be adjusted while playing to synchronize with character speech or other elements.

Excel and Word files
Users can display Excel worksheets and Word documents during a slide show.

Support for AT&T Natural Voices
Special features are included in Vox Proxy to support the AT&T Natural Voices Text-To-Speech engine, the most human-sounding synthetic speech available for desktop computers.

Technical Requirements
PowerPoint 2000 or 2002 under all versions of Windows except 3.1
800x600 minimum screen resolution
Pentium II or better; minimum 64MB RAM
150MB hard drive space

Vox Proxy is a trademark of Right Seat Software, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, PowerPoint, and Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.