At www.talkingmessenger.com you can download a plugin for MSN IM but sadly this no longer works with versions above 6 (may even be lower).

This was great as it "spoke" when people signed on, signed off, changed state and when you received a message.

This was so helpful when the pc is in another room and instead of the ping you hear who has signed on etc.

Can we have this in PLUS????? it would be a seriously nice addition.

I don't really understand, if you mean a automatic status changer, then it has one if you are away for so long or w/e... or if you mean a comeback message, then you can do this by right-clicking on the person who is offline, going to 'messenger plus! extras, and click 'set comeback message', and the next time he is online when you are, it will send him the message that you wrote earlier...

if you mean an offline talker, stuffplug ng 2 can do this, and you can download it from here: www.stuffplug.com

for the stuffplug 'offline talker' to work, you have to block the contact, and you can talk to them while they're blocked, making it appear that you are offline.

you can already sort of do some of this with plus !

go to plus! > preferences > notifications >

then for each contact u can set a certain sound when they sign in and/or out

you can't have certain sounds for when that person sends a message to you i'm affraid tho. maybe someone will be able to make a plugin which can tho

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traxor no offence, but wtf ?? how have u got offline talker from wot she has said
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Originally posted by traxor
Messenger Plus! Event Log basically?

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I think magiva is talking about a plugin thats says who has come online, changed status, etc.. (instead of the regular ping, it says the name or something)..
Wouldn't that increase the package-size, if it has to pronounce each contact's name (thus know every letter and word)? I would rather have this as a plugin than as a feature in Messenger Plus!

Messenger Plus! Event Log basically?

AS KnightieBoy said, magiva is talking about a plugin in which the computer will actually speak the persons name - for example "Chris has signed in".

If this was on a mac, if would be easily possible - mac has a speech capability built it. However, since it will need to be a Windows application - I'm not so sure it will be easy - unless there is some "speaking" program built into windows I do not know about. On my old computer, built into the soundcard, there was the capability to sound out single words - so this may actually be possible. I'll let someone else, possibly Patchou, answer this in more detail.

Shouldn't this me in a specific Messenger Plus! Forum, rather than in Tech Talk? Edit: Just realised it has been moved / I clicked on the wrong forum.

Yes Chris and Knightieboy are correct.  The talking messenger program did speak in whichever voices you had installed (Windows XP).  for previous operating systems the files to enable speech are readilly available.  by default it sounded like Steven Hawkins computer but if you downloaded different voices availalble off the net you could assign female voices to your female contacts and male to mail etc.

was brilliant until the developer stopped developing and it became incompantable with later versions of msn.

have a look on the website for more details www.talkingmessenger.com - its a bit rustic but still there.

u do know the plugin is for windows messenger and not msn messenger, hard u tried using it with windows messenger ??

i'm tryin...but can't sign in on windows messenger atm

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the plugin seems to be workin, altho it isn't actually makin any sound for me it says that it has said the message tho in the "spoken message"tab

yeah, sorry i always thought that one was the same as the other for MSN IM and WINDOWS IM.  Ive always used MSN IM and it simply stopped working around MSN IM v5. - The developer confirmed this.

The software says its said certain things but makes not sound- nor does it see the contacts from the contact list.

It did though - honest
Just dont have an old version of MSN IM to re-confirm\re-try
The voice talking bit stopped working after XP SP2 was installed - i never bothered to check the speech installation from the control panel - the talking messenger didnt work so i didnt persue it.

But now that Messenger Plus is thriving i thought it would be a place to revive this program and get see if someone can get it working.

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But now that Messenger Plus is thriving i thought it would be a place to revive this program and get see if someone can get it working.

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Im hoping that by mentioning the talking messenger will give inspiration to patchou(or others) in the hope it can be written as a working addition\plugin etc.   I know the author has said he isnt developing it (dont know anymore than that) so that rules out a working version of it coming out.

magiva - is the program open source? If not, can you get the source for it?

ive mailed the email addresses shown on the site with links to this thread to to see what he says.  I dont think he will want someone else devloping his work but i dont know him from adam and ya never know.  here's hoping anyhow

Maybe someone could take this as an idea and write something silimar?

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Originally posted by magiva
ive mailed the email addresses shown on the site with links to this thread to to see what he says. 

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glad you got in touch - hope that some body on here can help.  It would certainly add the 'sweet' element back to MSN IM.

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Originally posted by TalkingMessenger
Windows messenger exposed itself very easily to any developer, hence the quick and dirty early versions.

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Originally posted by Mike2
So, I guess that you were using the GetWindowText api on the toast, and use the windows xp speak engine to speak the text eh...?

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Considering that PLUS intercepts messages, sign on's etc morphing the TM into a PLUS plugin may seem possible rather than keeping it a stand alone product.

Maybe talking with Patchou to see how he hooks into it for PLUS to work.  Im just interested in you being able to get it going.

has anyone made any progress on this i wonder ?

I've been thinking about working on something like this for a while and once i get some spare time I put some code together.

excellent, will be great to have the function back.

please email me or post a reply here so i know what to do and where to go.

mark