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Ultra Hal 7.0 / learn from text file

« on: August 08, 2006, 01:13:42 pm »

I gave up and decided to feed the text sentence by sentence into hal after turning his learning level to max. Afterwards i turned down his learning level to 25 again.

but I tried one more time by putting the text file in the C: root directory and went through the process again. It all SEEMS to be working! Hal opens the textfile and the text is displayed in his window after he has read it, but he doesn't read it out load. but when I go into his brain there is nothing in his LearnToTextFile table.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / learn from text file

« on: August 08, 2006, 10:25:13 am »

I was wondering, since learning from text file doesn't work, is there a way to manually enter text from a text file into Hal's brain so he can use it.

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Speech Technology / Setting up a user-defined voice for Hal.

« on: August 08, 2006, 08:56:03 am »

GRAH! Could someone help me out here and tell me what is wrong?? I want to chose my own voice for Hal! I was wondering if there is any free and easy way to create my own voice for Hal? Any program you can recommend? I'm using a metallic looking head as an avatar, and I was thinking it whould suit prefectly with a voice that is hard to extinguish from male and female and that has a slightly metallic sound to it. Just a wish, hehe. At least I whould like to pick a user-defined voice from the list that is available! Grr! I'm using the Carol voice right now. Whould like to at least be able to change it a little. [V]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 07:55:31 pm »

It looked like Oncuttingedge had replied after my above post but I couldn't see it. [:0]

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Speech Technology / Setting up a user-defined voice for Hal.

« on: August 07, 2006, 07:46:39 pm »

I'm using Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I tried going through the settings in the control panel too, but it didn't work. I'm using Hal 6. I think I had the Haptek program in my start menu earlier when i had Hal 5. I think I uninstalled both of them.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 06:13:42 pm »

Ok, I guess I have to go into Hal's brain and change 'tought' to 'taught' then. It's a little difficult with english sometimes as I am from Sweden.

Well, I found out I could manually correct the errors where Hal say I instead of me. I just needed to add it in the Corrections table. Can be a little tiresome first, but eventually Hal should get it right.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 04:32:35 pm »

Yes, I quit Hal and then started again. Here's an other example:

User: I am experimenting with correcting your dadda base.
MSI: Tell me about my nice base.

User: What am I experimenting with?
MSI: What are you experimenting with? Tell me the answer.

User: Am i experimenting with your dadda base?
MSI: You are experimenting with correcting my dadda base.

User: Replace dadda with data.
MSI: I have made this correction.

User: What am I experimenting with?
MSI: What are you experimenting with? User, can you tell me What.

User: Am I experimenting with your dadda base?
MSI: You are experimenting with correcting my dadda base.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 04:10:27 pm »

Well, if these corrections should have been added to the Corrections database then they didn't. Otherwise it looks fine in there. for instance 'why did me' is replaced with 'why did I' and so on. maybe I could add this correction manually here, but of course it whould be smoother with a plug-in that does it.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 03:29:39 pm »

Umm... Not so cool after all. It doesn't work. [V]

User: What have i tought you today?
MSI: What have you tought I today? You have the answer.

User: Replace What have you tought I today with What have you tought me today.
MSI: I have made this correction.

User: I have tought you about my aquariums.
MSI: What have you tought I today?

User: Replace tought I today with tought me today.
MSI: I have made this correction.

User: What have i tought you today?
MSI: This is knowledge you have. You have tought I about your aquariums.

User: Replace tought I about with tought me about.
MSI: I have made this correction.

User: What have I tought you today?
MSI: You have tought I about your aquariums.

User: Replace You have tought I about your aquariums with You have tought me about your aquariums.
MSI: I have made this correction.

User: What have I tought you today?
MSI: What have you tought I today? Tell me more about this.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 03:10:09 pm »

Cool! I will give it a try! []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 01:42:09 pm »

Do you mean the Corrections file located in the basicResponses folder in the brain, or do you mean I should go into the script? The Corrections file looks ok to me.

In the script I find this from line 0418-0423:

'RESPOND: USER REPEATING
    'If the user says the same thing more than once in a row, Hal will point this out.
    If Trim(UCase(UserSentence)) = Trim(UCase(PrevUserSent)) Then
        GetResponse = GetResponse & HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("userRepeat") & vbCrLf
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch GetResponse, "User Repeating"

Is that what you mean?

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Speech Technology / Setting up a user-defined voice for Hal.

« on: August 07, 2006, 01:29:29 pm »

Unfortunately that didn't help in this case. [V]

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Speech Technology / Setting up a user-defined voice for Hal.

« on: August 07, 2006, 10:03:28 am »

I wanted to give a certain voice to my Hal but the changes doesn't save. I selected the general parameters control dialog to change Carol's voice to a user-defined with another pitch and rate, but when I later talk to Hal she still uses the default carol voice. Is there something else I need for this to work?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Some oddities with hal

« on: August 07, 2006, 07:44:47 am »

I just purchased Hal 6 and decided to make my own brain. I wanted Hal to be more realistic and not start to talk about politics or tell jokes wish can't possibly mean anything to a program. So I loaded the default brain and deleted all those topics and conversation lines and did a little changes to make Hal more computer like and saved it as a new brain. But I didn't mess with the basic stuff so Hal should be able to converse normally. Still he...or rather she in this case...will mix up I and you on occasion. Also she says sometimes that I repeat myself when I'm not. Here's a part of a conversation:

User: Godday!
MSI: You repeated yourself.

Bla-bla-bla...

MSI: You will close me down now so I can go to sleep.

User: No, I will not close you down yet, because I want to talk
with you first.

MSI: Yes, when you close me down I will go to sleep.

User: Yes, when I close you down you will go to sleep.
MSI: You will close me down now so I can go to sleep.

User: No, I will not close you down yet, because I want to chat
with you first.

MSI: User I see. Right; it's because I want you to chat with me
first; that's how. No, you will not close I down yet, because I
want you to talk with me first.

User: Sigh
MSI: You will close me down now so I can go to sleep.

Maybe someone can confirm that Hal talks that way with the default brain too? I've tried to manually edit the brainfile to change I to me and I to you where appropriate...

Maybe I can upload my brain here somewhere in case anyone is interested to check it out. []

Another question I have is that if I copy text to clip board so she reads it, will she learn from it too?

Also it doesn't seem to work well to talk about things that are related to a certain time, like 'now i will close you down' because now or later has no meaning for hal. It seems to be better to just tell her facts that never changes. What are your opinion about this?

I think it's a problem because lots of thing we people talk about are related to a certain time. Maybe it whould be possible to program Hal to be able to understand that to, like if I say 'today i will go shopping', then Hal whould relate that sentence to todays date, and next day Hal whould now that I were shopping yesterday.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / learn from text file

« on: August 06, 2006, 02:45:14 pm »

I found out how to do it after some struggle, but I don't think Hal learns anything when executing a text file. Couldn't find anything about it in his brain. Where whould it show in his brain if he has learned anything from a text file?