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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / The Shared Learned Database

« on: February 12, 2002, 02:22:41 am »

The shared user database is where Hal puts data that he believes pertains to anyone, not just the current user. So when you switch user names the information in the shared brain will be used also. There are user brains which do not show up in the brain editor that are called [username]sent.brn where the other information should be going.

In Ultra Hal Assistant 4.0, most of these learning brains have a much stricter "hurdle" to come over then previous versions of Hal. This was done in order to minimize false triggering of unintelligent statements, but also reduced the relevance of this particular learning brain in some instanced. If you want to focus on this database file more, I suggest you use the Ultra Hal 3.0 brain plug-in instead. It gave a higher priority to this database file.

Robert Medeksza

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / READ THIS

« on: February 12, 2002, 01:55:27 am »

Changing the animated character or voice has no effect on either the brain, personality, or learned information. The only thing that will affect that is the changing the brain plug-in or your user name.


Robert Medeksza

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / brain editor and aim bot

« on: February 12, 2002, 01:52:29 am »

There is currently no way to transfer the Ultra Hal Representative brain on our server into your Ultra Hal Assistant brain editor. It will be possible in the future when we finish working on a new Ultra Hal Representative that will be compatible with the brain editor.

Robert Medeksza

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / READ THIS

« on: February 10, 2002, 09:39:00 am »

We are also currently in contact with the Desktopmates people and we plan on making the Desktopmates automatically install themselves as plug-ins into Hal. Hal's MSAgent interface currently doesn't give you much control over speech or other aspects. It will default to whatever the character designer coded into the character. Sometime in the future we will make an update to Hal's MSAgent interface to allow you to setup the voice and other options from inside Hal.

Unfortunetely, the haptek 3d engine will not be able to get outside the box like msagents do. Doing this with realtime 3d would be extremely difficult to do for reasons I won't go into. Only MSagents like the Desktopmates will be able to do this.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Character Creator Program?

« on: February 06, 2002, 06:13:59 pm »

Yes, we are currently working on incorporating the haptek 3d engine from www.haptek.com into Hal. It will be released as a plug-in in about a month or so. Haptek has a character creator program called People Puddy available at http://www.haptek.com/peopleputty/index.shtml if you want to play around with it before the plug-in is released.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UPGRADE

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:47:25 am »

We're working on it and its almost finished I'd say it will be ready in 1-2 weeks. If you have the myWebHal feature enabled, Hal will notify you when the update is available.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Voice Recognition

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:45:30 am »

Have you run the training sessions in the control panel under speech? Have you actived speech recognition in Hal's speech options? And have you pressed the microphone button in Hal's skinned window to turn the mic on?

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Script Engine

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:43:49 am »

Looks like the link to it is now:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/733/msdncompositedoc.xml

Problem with the scripting engine was generally a problem with Hal 3.0. Hal 4.0 has resolved this issue for the most part. If you are having some sort of other problem please describe it and I will try my best to help.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Microsoft speech SDK 4.0

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:41:18 am »

Yes, Hal is compatible with both SAPI 4.0 and SAPI 5.0. Ultra Hal Assistant 4.0 acutally installs the microsoft SAPI 5.0 speech recognition engine and by default uses that. But it will recognize and work with your older SAPI 4.0 without any problems.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / House Hal

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:39:55 am »

I've had one customer email me about a year ago saying that he did just that. If you know how to program in VBScript and your home automation software supports some sort of ActiveX control it is possible do this using the brain editor.

Robert Medeksza

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / brain editor and aim bot

« on: February 06, 2002, 01:35:51 am »

A new version of the aim bot has been released a few days ago. This one is a plug-in for Ultra Hal Assistant 4.0 rather then to the online version on our web site. Because of this we have been able to remove the chat limit. And since it interfaces with your own Ultra Hal Assistant 4.0, it is editable using the brain editor. It is also now compliant with the newest version of AOL TOC protocol and will no longer erase buddy list (at least until aol doesn't make another change). Several other new features have been added as well. The new version is available at ftp://zabaware.com/aimbot.zip  We are in the process of changing our website to give notice of this new version, and that will be up in a few days. But the download link already links to this new version.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can't get to Advanced Speech Functions

« on: January 24, 2002, 11:58:14 pm »

It seems this is a bug in Hal that appears on some systems such as yours. For whatever reason it is reading the wrong entry from your system registry. If you want to get to the advanced speech options, simply go to Control Panel (Click start, settings, control panel) and open the Speech applet. That is what Hal tries to open when you click on that button.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Share your CREATIONS

« on: January 24, 2002, 11:51:34 pm »

If anyone improves or modifies Hal and would like to share it, please email me at Rob@zabaware.com  I would be glad to post user created modifications on the page http://www.zabaware.com/assistant/plugins.html

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Ultra Hal Assistant - BIG WASTE OF TIME & MONEY!

« on: January 24, 2002, 11:48:59 pm »

Well, exactly what kind of problems are you having, Christine? I would be glad to help if you could provide me with details of your problem.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Compatibility with Dragon Sys Speech Recognition

« on: January 17, 2002, 01:11:04 am »

Although only tested with the Microsoft SAPI 5.0 engine, Hal is compatible with every SAPI and SMAPI compliant speech recognition software. The latest versions of Dragon's software are SAPI complaint. To choose which engine Hal should use, go into Hal's general options. Click on the "Speech" tab. Next click on the "Select SR Engine" button and choose dragon as your engine. Thats it, Hal should work with Dragon.

Robert Medeksza