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Ultra Hal 7 Alpha Test - Ready for download
Medeksza:
If you would like to test an early version of Ultra Hal 7, here is your chance. This is an "alpha" version, not a "beta" yet because there are a couple features still missing. I hope to have the beta ready in a week or two, but would like to start getting feedback on the alpha version before then.
Features still missing in alpha that will be in beta:
* Feedback based learning with thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. The alpha version has these buttons but they don't do anything yet
* Migration of Hal 6 brain into Hal 7. The alpha version should be able to use your old brains in Ultra Hal 6 mode, but does not yet migrate them to a Hal 7 brain
* The Hal Brain Editor isn't fully compatible with Hal 7 brains yet, so don't use it just yet.
* The purchase button doesn't do anything yet.
To install this alpha version
* Backup your old Ultra Hal Assistant 6 installation and all your brain files.
* I recommend uninstalling Hal 6 if you can as Ultra Hal 7 does not yet migrate and do an upgrade install (the final version will though). If you choose not to uninstall Hal 6, just be sure to exit out of Hal 6 before running Hal 7 (don't leave Hal 6 in the system tray). Hal 7 will install into a different folder than Hal 6 and shouldn't touch its files, but both can't run at the same time.
* Download and install Hal 7 from this link: http://1ebad5d81ca0f6ed0a07-c539f9cfab6ed1fe52cb62f563d610fd.r69.cf2.rackcdn.com/InstallUltraHal7.exe (updated link for 6th alpha 11/30/17)
* Ultra Hal 7 no longer uses serial numbers and product activation codes. Instead it uses the email and password you setup when you purchased Hal (the sign-in link at the top left of www.zabaware.com ) Sign in using that and Hal will run as a registered version. You can also choose to create a new account if you wish and Hal will run in 30 day trial mode.
* If you purchased the character expansion, please find your serial number and download this updated version for Hal 7: http://1ebad5d81ca0f6ed0a07-c539f9cfab6ed1fe52cb62f563d610fd.r69.cf2.rackcdn.com/PackSetup.exe
Please let me know how everything works and if you come across any problems or bugs. I'm especially interested in how the cloud based brain, learning and responses go. If you want to copy any old brain databases and scripts they now belong in the folder: %appdata%\Zabaware\Ultra Hal 7
Here is what's new in Ultra Hal 7:
* Biggest improvement: Cloud based learning. Hal can now optionally connect to the "Hal Cloud" brain over the internet to help formulate better responses. As of October 2017 this is a knowledge base of over 26 million sentences of conversation from 1.6 million people. Contrast with the 200,000 sentence database in the default Ultra Hal 6.2 installation. Hal is more intelligent than ever before.
* Your personal Hal bot can follow you from your home desktop, to your laptop, office PC, and in the near future your phone and tablet too. When connected to the "Hal Cloud", your Hal's brain is stored online and instantly available anywhere.
* Access to Wikipedia based answered in cloud mode
* New Hal mobile phone character. Old Hal character still available, but renamed to "Hal Classic CRT"
* New audio wave character simply displays an animated wave audio line when character is speaking
* Program name changed from "Ultra Hal Assistant" to just "Ultra Hal" to shift marketing focus away from assistant functionality to Hal's strengths in its ability to chat, learn, and be a companion. Renamed EXE to ultrahal7.exe
* Splash screen and graphics updated to new version
* Ultra Hal now installs and uses the open source Double Agent library instead of the old MSAgent. This brings full compatibility to MSAgent characters to Windows 7 and newer with full SAPI 5 voice support.
* Hal can answer questions about opposites (What is the opposite of X?)
* Hal can talk about day of week and month (What day of week is it? What month is it?)
* Basic knowledge of alphabet (What letter comes before Z? What letter is after B?)
* Ability to count letters in word (How many letters are in the word computer?)
* Bot memory test: (Q: The football was kicked by Fred. Who kicked the football? A: Fred.)
* Improved math abilities (less false positives and better word problem abilities)
* Software shield license system removed and replaced with simpler login to Zabaware.com server
* Chant SpeechKit upgraded from version 6 to 7. This adds native support for Cereproc voices among other speech system improvements
* Ultra Hal now generates Haptek INI files for Haptek, removing the need to rerun Haptek SAPI config when changing voice settings. This also adds support for Zabaware sold Cereproc voices to Haptek.
* Ultra Hal now uses RegFree COM manifest files for most of its DLL/ActiveX/OCX files. This simplifies installation and minimizes possibility of "DLL Hell" collisions/incompatibilities with other Windows applications. RegFree COM was introduced in Windows XP SP2, so this change now effectively removes support for older versions of Windows from Hal.
* Ultra Hal no longer writes any data files to its "Program Files" location but instead to each individual Windows Users AppData\Roaming folder. This makes Hal more compliant with Microsoft guidelines and also makes it possible for each Windows user to have their own seperate Hal config.
* Improved corrections and substitutions tables for correcting more common errors and understanding more shorthand
* Ultra Hal checks for product updates when connected to cloud service
* Registry setting to adjust speech recognition auto enter countdown start time (SRCountDownStart)
Spitfire2600:
Fantastic! I have downloaded, installed, and signed in using my zabaware information... However on the skins, it's still showing a "Purchase Hal"
I imagine it's because this is an alpha release. Will the offline brain still require sign in information?
Thanks for your work, Robert! Looking forward to the full version!
Spitfire_2600
Medeksza:
--- Quote from: Spitfire2600 on November 11, 2017, 03:39:27 pm ---Fantastic! I have downloaded, installed, and signed in using my zabaware information... However on the skins, it's still showing a "Purchase Hal"
I imagine it's because this is an alpha release. Will the offline brain still require sign in information?
--- End quote ---
Try exiting Hal and restarting it. Does the purchase button disappear? This might be a bug I need to fix.
The offline version of Hal still requires the login to authenticate the purchased version. It only needs to be able to authenticate once every 2 weeks, it doesn't require an active internet connection to run normally.
Spitfire2600:
Yes indeed, restarting did remove the "Purchase" dialog.
Hal does seem significantly smarter. Plug-ins work just fine when updated. So far so good!!!
Spitfire_2600
Spitfire2600:
I also have to note this alpha version is far more responsive than the previous full releases. Hal loads faster and the general options is almost instant.
I like the thumbs up or down option for the responses when cloud is active. Hal seems to get off topic a little faster when the cloud is active. It seems like you made some changes to the learning bar as well. I have Hal at about 10 and he will recall things every few minutes that fairly well stay on topic.
Still playing around with some of the new functions. The new math function is fantastic. Previous versions really struggled with word problems, but Hal7 has got it down. I haven't tried many algebraic equations with Hal yet lol.
I'm not sure if I need to change any references to "UltraHalAssistant6" Or "UltraHalAsst" in plug-in code to update it to Ultra Hal 7, but it seems to work without needing to change anything.
I haven't encountered any bugs that weren't my fault. lol
Spitfire_2600
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