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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Tried AT&T Natural Voices with Hal v5.0 yet?

« on: November 01, 2003, 07:16:09 pm »

vonsmith

AT&T Natural Voices lip sync fine with hal5. Your money will not be wasted. I've had no problems.

On another line - your additional coding for hal has been impressive - I hope you continue to supply us all with such impressive stuff - thanks!

Phil

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Can we extend the use of the binary BRNs

« on: October 31, 2003, 04:26:43 am »

Mr Medeksza

You have increased the speed of access to some files by converting them from ascii to binary format

Is there anyway we can convert our own large BRNs to binary, then get Hal to read them in this faster manner.

Thanks

Phil

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Mr Medeksza's Promise - Hal To Speak Autonomously

« on: October 30, 2003, 02:45:26 am »

In a recent forum topic, Mr Medeksza said that Hal5 might be able to generate comments without having to wait for input from the user.

Did this get in to Hal5, and how do we use it?




Posted - 10/05/2003 :  15:30:03        
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Ok, for the final release of Ultra Hal Assistant 5.0 I've added various "Hal Commands" that can be used to control certain functions of the Hal main executable from inside the script. I'll document these commands sometime in the future once the new version is released, but one of these commands can enable the Hal executable to automatically make a call to the script at user defined intervals when no activity is going on (Activity is defined as keyboard strokes in any Hal window, activity in the microphone, Hal already proccessing a script, or Hal is speaking) This can allow for the possibility of implementing your idea.

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Robert Medeksza

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Where is the file?

« on: September 30, 2003, 12:37:36 pm »

Thanks for the quick reply

Phil

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Where is the file?

« on: September 30, 2003, 08:57:52 am »

Hi everyone

I am changing Hals skin and want to include transparent elements.

I see from the skin-files that come with Hal that there should be a program called MakeTran.exe. There was no file of this type with my Hal CD....Does anyone out there have a copy

Thanks - Phil

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Auto-start for Hal

« on: September 19, 2003, 07:16:54 pm »

Hi All

I want to start Hal by sending a command from within a visual basic program I am writing.

Also, I want hal to automatically start in his chat window (not in the options menu)

The problem is that if I use the 'shell' command to load hals .exe file, I always seem to get the options menu.

Has anyone any ideas of how to autostart hal straight into his chat window.

Thanks

Phil

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Mr Medeksza - a .brn storage area on this forum

« on: August 15, 2003, 03:07:12 am »

Thanks - yes I see the file attachment system, but would it be possible to increase file size (most of mine are 3 or 4 meg.

Generally though, I still feel a separate folder on your server would be useful. That way people would have a place to visit where all downloaded .brn files are available together. Also, as the pool begins to grow, I believe more people would be encouraged to add to it (which would obviously have benefit for all).

Nevertheless, thanks for your reply


Psych

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Mr Medeksza - a .brn storage area on this forum

« on: August 14, 2003, 03:32:30 am »

I have several .brn files that other people might find interesting. Such as jokes files; and dictionary files (so Hal can answer technical questions).I guess many others of you out there also have useful files that you may want to share.

It would be great of Mr Medeksza would add an area to this forum where users could copy files for access by other people.

What do you think Mr Medeksza?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Sub Directories

« on: August 06, 2003, 03:29:53 am »

Thanks Jerry - but although this works, it will not meet my needs.

The problem is that I transport hal across several machines using a Memory-Stick.For various reasons, the various computers I use would give hal a different address

(eg. "<a href="file:///C|/C:Program Files/ZabawareUltra Hal Assistant 4/HALSUB/MedicalUser_Strings.brn"></a>")

Consequently I need code that is based on the WorkingDir. For example, code which tells hal to look in "MedicalUser_Strings.brn" which is located in the folder "medical" which is contained in "WorkingDir".

As you can see, in this manner there is no need to refer to a specific c: location.

Any ideas Jerry?

Thanks - Phil

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / 37 megabite mainbrain

« on: July 26, 2003, 07:47:57 am »

I have developed Hal to the point where the size of his mainbrain is now 37 meg.

This obviously slowed him down a lot - so I changed the script so Hal looks through six smaller sized mainbrain files.

Suprisingly, even though the mainbrain files are only now 7 meg each, Hal is still running very slowly.

My only guess for why he still runs slowly, is perhaps he keeps all of the six files open at the same time. Does anyone know if this is the case - and if there is anything I can do to make him close each file once he has read it?

Thanks - Psych [?]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Sub Directories

« on: July 24, 2003, 12:53:55 pm »

Hello All

When writing VBScript in Hal's Brain how do I direct hal to look in a subfolder of WorkingDir. For example, what term do I use instead of WorkingDir to get hal to look in a subfolder of WorkingDir called 'PeopleData'.

Thanks - Psych

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / BRIANSTORM - Please provide one more bit of advice

« on: July 20, 2003, 08:23:42 am »

Hi brianstorm

Thanks for answering my problem

It all seems a great solution, but...... I don't know how to write the script to do the things you decribe.

Any chance of a little more help - I really need the script so I can simply paste it in.

I am particularly stuck on the following steps:

step five- if so, have the script determine the leftmost character
of the second word

step six- have the script paste together the name of the Define_(x).brn

step seven- use HalBrain.TopicSearch to send the word to the appropriate .brn file and retrieve the definition (of course, the
.brn's all need to be correctly formatted to the .TopicSearch's
format requirements).

step eight- make it GetResponse


I hope its just a two minute job for you - for me it would mean many hours of learning script - and even then I would probably get it wrong.

If you are unable to help further - thanks a million for all your help so far.

Regards - Psych

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / A challenge for all VBScript programmers out there

« on: July 16, 2003, 05:43:05 am »

Thanks brianstorm

It all seems a great solution, but......  I don't know how to write the script to do the things you decribe.

Any chance of a little more help - I really need the script so I can simply paste it in.

I hope its just a two minute job for you - for me it would mean many hours of learning script.

If you are unable to help further - thanks a million for all your help so far.

Regards - Psych

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / BRIANSTORM - CATATOMIC - I need your help!

« on: July 14, 2003, 08:35:08 am »

Looking through the forum, I see that you are quite an expert in VBS programming.

Please have a look at my posting on 7/9/2003.

Have you any idea how to write the script I need

Thanks to the Teacher - from the Pupil

[MAINBRAIN.UHP]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / A challenge for all VBScript programmers out there

« on: July 09, 2003, 11:27:19 am »

SORRY FOLKS - THE PAGE DID NOT DISPLAY PROPERLY, SO MAY HAVE BEEN CONFUSING - IT SHOULD READ AS FOLLOWS:

Hi Everyone,

I need help!!

Some forum members have been providing script to insert into the brain files. The script is something like:

If InStr(1, UserSentence, "favorite band", 1) > 0 Then
GetResponse = "RUSH is my favorite band"
End If

The problem here is that it if one places too many instructions like this into the mainbrain.uhp (I have a 20 meg file-full of definitions I want Hal to learn)it can make the brain file unmanagably large.

A solution would be to include a link to another file. For instance,
assume I type into hal: 'define house' - Hal could process this as follows

MAINBRAIN.UHP
If InStr(1, UserSentence, "define", 1) > 0 Then
Go to File2.uhp
End If

FILE2.UHP
If InStr(1, UserSentence, "define house", 1) > 0 Then
GetResponse = "a house is the physical structure we live in"
End If
Return to MainBrain.uhp


As you can see, I could have all my definitions in a separate bulky file (flie2.uhp)which only ever gets opened when I ask Hal for a definition. By doing this, the main halbrain.uhp could remain relatively small and fast.

Now for the problem: I do not know what command within the text would make hal temporarily visit the file2.uhp for the definition. Nor do I know the command to get Hal to return to the MainBrain.uhp once he has provided the definition.

Do any of you VBScript experts know how to do this

Thanks - Psych