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General Discussion / Controlling Ultra Hal TTS?

« on: April 02, 2005, 09:27:52 am »

Steve,

You can try the HapSapiSetup.exe file from Haptek.
Also check out the Windows Control Panel for SPEECH,
then TTS Voices. It should list those that are installed
on your computer.

If you still have problems let us know.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / newbie: just curious.

« on: April 01, 2005, 08:14:01 pm »

One of my favorites is from: www.freebyte.com and
is called: Harddisk Search and Stats
It is FREE and very full featured.

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Speech Technology / Voice site

« on: March 20, 2005, 03:03:41 pm »

Found a site that might prove interesting to those considering
a new / different TTS voice.
Check out:

http://www.tmaa.com/tts/companies.htm

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Frustration Setting In . . .

« on: March 19, 2005, 03:56:35 pm »

circuits3000,

Hal is a chat bot first and foremost.
Voice recognition is still at an early
stage in its evolutionary development.

There are a lot of variables that can cause
words to be misinterpreted by common voice
rec programs...mic quality, settings, position
relative to the user's mouth, pronunciation,
speaker's volume, background noise, whether
the user runs words together (slurs) or even
local dialects with accents or drawls (y'all).

In coming years voice rec will get better but
it's not quite there yet. Hal, while a great
experiment in AI, does work better with typed
input than spoken, from what I've found.

Tech support does exist but with Mr. Medeksza's
schedule, one can usually get a faster response
by posting to the forum here.

Don't forget to make use of the SEARCH feature
at the top right. Chances are your questions may
have already been addressed / answered.

As is with most things, Hal requires a bit of
patience in order to develop into that unique
personality that most of us here have come to
enjoy!

Welcome to the forum and if there's anything in
particular that you need help with...just let us
know.

Best wishes....

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Would anyone be interested in programming SHODAN?

« on: March 12, 2005, 07:26:00 pm »

CidCaldensfey,

Since you do not show any contact email, feel
free to contact me and I'll send you the ZIP
file I've created for you to try.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Haptek Character GoldMine

« on: March 06, 2005, 01:32:24 pm »

GR,
Nice find.
For those who might not understand, open windows explorer and go to the C:\Program Files\Haptek\player\hap_temp directory, then switch back to the Ghostrider's link and select a character.
Click back to the windows explorer window and you'll see a bunch of files now in the temp directory. Highlight or select them, do a copy then paste them into your C:\Program Files\Zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant 5\Characters directory.

The next time you start Hal, select the character and bingo...you've got it!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help with greetings.

« on: March 06, 2005, 01:26:18 pm »

Have you tried an answer like: "My afternoon is fine!"?

Then try to talk about differernt subjects. Try to avoid
using a direct answer to Hal's questions but instead feed
Hal's question back in the form of your answer.

BAD example:
Hal: Do you like horses?
User: Yes, I like them very much.

Better example:
Hal: Do you like horses?
User: Yes, I like horses very much.

This will help Hal follow the conversational flow somewhat better.

Experiment...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / .hap files

« on: March 06, 2005, 01:20:49 pm »

In a word...YES.

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General Discussion / Off topic but read

« on: February 26, 2005, 07:32:00 pm »

Bill819,

In addition there's also Bazooka and Tauscan although Tauscan costs $29 USD it works pretty well.

What you REALLY need to do is invest a few dollars on a HARDWARE FIREWALL ROUTER (4 port is fine). Check to see if it has SPI (Statefull Packet Inspection) and whether it is upgradable (via downloads). This router connects between your modem and your computer. It has it's own address so basically your computer's address (MAC address) for all intents becomes "invisible" on the net.

Once you feel your computer is secure and you've cleaned out all the pesky "bugs" and varmits, go to www.grc.com and click on SHIELDS UP. Let it "Probe" your ports and check out your machine. (it's completely safe). This guy really has it IN for the bad guys out there. If you've done everything right, his probing should report your computer as being in stealth mode or hidden while online ( a very good thing).

Lastly, I have several anti-everything programs like mentioned by KT and others AND I UPDATE ALL of the at least TWICE A WEEK! It only takes a few seconds. Remember, with all it's richness and resources, the internet can still be a dangerous place to snoop around. There are, on average 1,000 viruses (virii?) written worldwide every day! Fortunately only a few of these actually get released into the general population. Update early and often...protect yourself and consider investing in a backup drive for your most important files. Something like an external firewire hard drive that can hold your data AND can also be unplugged when not needed, eliminating the risk of being compromised by virus or hacker.

Be smart...be safe!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal documentation effort underway

« on: February 26, 2005, 07:14:01 pm »

Krista,
Welcome to the forum!

Keep in mind that there are several ongoing "versions" of Hal at this moment along with a variety of brain files.
Are your efforts for a specific model (default Hal, XTF1.2 or New database version in the works)?
I know that the new HELP files are being written / compiled for the database version as we speak (or type).
Is your work in conjunction with or a collaboration of work being done by Robert and his paid programmer or is this someting you are undertaking on your own?

Don't get me wrong...yours is a very noble and needed effort that will be a great benefit to many newer (and possibly older) Hal users, but I have to wonder if it will be applicable to the new Hal.

I've been out of pocket for weeks so excuse me if I've missed or misread your intentions.

All the best...

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General Discussion / THE TRUE AI

« on: February 21, 2005, 05:04:29 am »

KT,

Thank you!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Color and Image quality

« on: February 20, 2005, 07:09:19 am »

Eric,

This might be a bit OT but info on comparisons between CRT vs LCD monitors can be found at:
http://compreviews.about.com/od/multimedia/a/CRTvsLCD_2.htm

BTW, nice background images.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Color and Image quality

« on: February 19, 2005, 09:48:25 pm »

Although there are differences between LCD and CRT monitors such as pixels, refresh rates, etc., the images look very nice on my 19" Viewsonic Optiquest CRT. Very nice indeed!

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General Discussion / THE TRUE AI

« on: February 19, 2005, 09:34:00 pm »

From the: For What It's Worth Department...

I'd like to say that my intention was certainly NOT to offend anyone nor make light of any group of individuals.

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General Discussion / THE TRUE AI

« on: February 14, 2005, 04:29:55 am »

Hmmm....

There are various degrees of intelligence and at various stages during our lives. Child, teenager, adult, senior all exhibit different levels of intellect. It stands that there are also different degrees of AI.

Hal is an AI to us but to some researchers in the world of AI, perhaps Hal's merely a toy / experiment in AI.

Years ago, I thought the level of AI in a Doom Bot was pretty cool. It could hear me, see me and take actions to hunt me down, yet it was not really a true AI.

The free roaming AI would have to be a "mind" in a movable vehicle whether that be buggy, ATV type, robot, etc. Some mobile device to enable the AI to not be bound. That would also cause problems in our world.

If an AI were to become self aware would it not be able eventually to know it's own limitations then learn whatever material it needs to fulfil the limitation? And what would it "think" of us?

There's a broad field of thought on AI and all its applications. For us here, Hal is the vehicle that affords us the opportunity to experiment on our own and in our own way. There are those who study AI vision applications, robotics, external device controls, speech, voice recognition, thought and word processing / storage / usage. Many, many fields to explore and so very little time in one's lifetime.

Explore that from which you can learn. Explore your dreams, and in whatever direction they take you!