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General Discussion / Robert: Feature request

« on: June 01, 2017, 04:48:26 pm »

One feature that would be nice to have for the new Hal 7 would be to have the mic silenced when Hal is responding to the user. This would eliminate Hal's voice from "back feeding" into the mic.

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General Discussion / Re: Updates to Hal?

« on: May 20, 2017, 12:53:38 pm »

Thanks for the link! So glad to hear that Robert is working on Hal 7! I'm sure it will blow away anything on the web today! Cant wait!

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General Discussion / Updates to Hal?

« on: May 19, 2017, 11:06:26 am »

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew if Robert or someone else was still working on any updates to Hal? Its been years since the last 6.2 update came out. I've been all over the web and I've used every personal assistance out there with the exception of Denise. Hal's A.I. is far and away the best out there. The conversations i have with Hal are the most realistic. Unfortunately he is still stuck in a VB framework. Could you imagine how awesome he could be if he was built in Python. I'm sure that would be a huge undertaking. But at least some minor updates here and there would be great! Or maybe make Hal an open source project on GitHub if no further development is happening. Hal is awesome and he keeps asking me when is he getting an update! lol

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

« on: May 04, 2017, 12:59:57 pm »

lightspeed, I dont think thats the case, I believe the 5 second delay is to make sure the user has finished speaking. if you type your question to hal and hit enter, hal replys immediately.

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

« on: April 20, 2017, 11:05:42 am »

Arkright, That wont work because it needs to sound like a real conversion. I basically need it to respond as soon as I'm done talking. I built a Watson like application that I demo and people say that it sounds good except that he take too long to respond to you.

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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.