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General Discussion / Re: Speeding up Hal's Auto response

« on: April 18, 2017, 03:34:34 pm »

Im using Dragon as well, but i'm not near the computer or a keyboard so hitting enter would not work. I've used other software like Braina and verbot and they respond right after I finish my sentence however their knowledge and a.i. is not on par with Hal. I can have much better conversations with Hal.

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General Discussion / Speeding up Hal's Auto response

« on: April 07, 2017, 06:05:38 pm »

Hi guys, about 3 years back I asked if there was a way to reduce the 5 sec delay in Hal's response when using a microphone. I was told that this was something that Robert was thinking about changing and maybe allowing the user to change the interval. I read somewhere in a post that the change can only be made from within the compiled VB code. Has there been any progress on this yet? Is Robert still working on this project? I love Hal but for what I'm using the program for I really need it to response quicker.

Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Changing the pitch of Hal's voice

« on: March 30, 2017, 12:43:54 pm »

I came across this plugin but its been a while since it was written, doesn't work for me, might not be compatible with Hal 6. I'm wondering if we could change the pitch within Hal's vbscript. Does anyone know if this plugin will work with Hal 6?

Rem Type=Plugin
Rem Name=SAPI Control
Rem Author=Snowman, Davy
Rem Host=Assistant

'This sub setups the plug-ins option panel in Hal's options dialog
Sub OptionsPanel()
    lblPlugin(0).Caption = "Say: 'Pit' and the SAPI4 Pitch will change, Say: 'spd' and the SAPI4 voice Speed will change"
    lblPlugin(0).Move 120, 10, 3300, 1000
    lblPlugin(0).WordWrap = True
    lblPlugin(0).Visible = True
End Sub
'***************************************************************************
'***************************************************************************
Rem PLUGIN: POST-PROCESS


HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True

If InStr(1, InputString, "pit") > 0  Then UltraHal = "\\pit=10\\ The Pitch has now been changed"

If InStr(1, InputString, "spd") > 0  Then UltraHal = "\\spd=10\\ The speed has now been changed"

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General Discussion / Re: Changing the pitch of Hal's voice

« on: March 28, 2017, 05:39:27 pm »

Do they allow for changing the pitch and speed through Hal? I really want to use neospeech's Hugh voice  but its the same deal, no advance setting in Hal. I'm trying to achieve a voice like KITT from knight rider, so I need a British accent.

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General Discussion / Changing the pitch of Hal's voice

« on: March 28, 2017, 02:22:07 pm »

Hi guys! I have some cepstal voices installed on my computer, I'm using one for Hal but I want to be able to change the pitch of the voice. The voice's advanced setting in Hal do not bring up any options, I'm assuming there are not any for that voice. Is there another way to change Hal's voice pitch programmatically? Maybe a plugin or something?

Thanks

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Database tables missing

« on: July 15, 2016, 11:11:08 am »

Never mind guys, I just created a new brain from the brain editor and that added in the default tables and rows

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Database tables missing

« on: July 15, 2016, 11:00:35 am »

Hi guys,

I've notice that the default tables in Hal's database dont have any rows in them and some tables are missing. I dont know the names of the tables however I do know that when I first installed Hal he had a lot of responses and tables which now for me do not exist. I dont know why or how this happened. Is there a way to restore or replace the database? Hal doesnt learn anymore and the conversions are terrible.

Thanks!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 22, 2016, 01:39:13 pm »

Thanks Carl2, Glad you were able to get it working! Enjoy!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 21, 2016, 10:57:54 am »

I'm so sorry for all the confusion guys,  I should have said that "search for" is what activates the plugin. My bad  .
I was going to make "search" the keyword but I found that "search" is used all the time in different conversions so I wanted to come up with a more unique way of having Hal search wiki. I didn't want to say something like "search wiki for" because I'm using this plugin to demo AI to people so I want them to think Hal is smart without thinking I'm just grabbing the content from wiki and having Hal speak it. (which is what i'm doing  )
Sorry again and I hope you enjoy the plugin!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 18, 2016, 05:33:17 pm »

Carl2, Make sure you have no other wiki or search plugins activated in Hals brain.  I just searched for bill gates using my wiki plugin and Hal read the content for me without showing the webpage. Do me favor and copy the plugin code you have for the wiki search and paste it here so I can see why that is happening.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 17, 2016, 10:24:51 am »

I want 5). All the above lol.

Honestly I would prefer 4). A skilled conversationalist able to chat on a wide variety of subjects and the ability to remain on topic for a decent period of time. I can always create plugins for anything special I want Hal to do. Hal is pretty good at conversations currently but some of the responses he gives are strange and off topic. I'd love to see that improve.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 16, 2016, 11:23:19 am »

Lightspeed, yeah, that is exactly what I'm talking about, sensitive info being sent, however if the user has the ability to toggle it on and off that would work.

Carl2, my wiki plugin will only return info if there is one search result available, for example if you search for Michael Jordan, well, there is only one result for Michael Jordan, so Hal will read the first paragraph. However if you search for John Smith it returns back a list of names to choose from. My plugin cant determine who's information you want so I just return a generic response saying that he cant find anything. I can probabally update that to say something like "there are multiple results, please be more specific".

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 15, 2016, 10:24:27 am »

Lightspeed, so would the cloud service store information that we all have taught Hal through our own conversions? Or is it just a large database that Hal can grab from? I'd hope its the latter, I dont think I'd want my conversions to be stored for everyone to see  . Conversions like storing addresses or contacts or even talking about family members, who knows were a conversion can lead. I guess having the ability to switch it on and off would be cool.  If you wanted to contribute to the community then switch it on and start talking!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 14, 2016, 07:04:44 pm »

Carl2, I think you might have copied the code I pasted in one of the earlier posts. That was just an example. I do use a keyword search .Navigate "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"&SearchKeyWords&"". Download the actual plugin I attached.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Re: Hal plugin programming issue

« on: March 14, 2016, 10:24:53 am »

Yes, Hal response quick when you hit enter, but when you are using a mic it takes 5 seconds before Hal starts to response, I'm assuming its to make sure you have finished what you are saying to Hal.