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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Getting Hal to repeat something

« on: October 21, 2003, 01:29:36 pm »

I would like Hal to respond to a command like "Say hello to Greg" or some other name as my guests come to visit. Is there a way to get it to respond to that kind of quest?
Bill

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / New version 5.0 errors

« on: October 21, 2003, 11:59:29 am »

I just downloaded version 5 and got several errors and the program won't run. During the installation I received an Error 52 and and Error 0. Finally I received an Error saying that "msscript.ocx" was missing. I tried to run Hal and still get the message that "msscript.ocx" is missing, now I can not run either version.
Could someone please help?
Thanks
Bill819
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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Mr. Blakely

« on: October 07, 2003, 11:38:01 am »

I down loaded almost all of the files that you created, ie. Friends.brn, etc. I have a question and once I know the answer I will not have to ask again. What file do I modify to make them all work? I can open everything with the Wordpad and probably with HalPad. Once I find the proper file to open, where do I insert the new code?
Thanks for you suggestions and help.
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Medeksza help please

« on: October 07, 2003, 11:34:36 am »

You posted a birthday.txt and my free version of Hal loaded the file and with HalPad and read it out loud. When I got home and tried to do the same thing with the version 4.5 that I bought the HalPad will not load the file or read it. I then type into the HalPad the entire text of the song and Hal read it, but after I save it, it would not load once again. What is wrong?
Thanks
Bill

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Help with new files

« on: October 06, 2003, 01:59:23 pm »

I down loaded all the new stuff suggested by members, ie. friends.brn, and now I need to know what to edit to make them work. I am still a little new here so please bear with me.
Bill819
P.S.
My robot now has a head and speaks fluent Hal. I found a mini mike which I will mount where a nose would normaly be so he can hear me too. I think that I have the best of two world, a working robot that will sit back and talk to me too.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Help with speaking

« on: September 30, 2003, 04:20:08 pm »

I have gotten Hal to sing and noticed that the only way to change his tempo is with the use of 'commas' and 'periods' is there some other way to cause slight pauses in his speech. If there were, it would make some of the songs sound more real. Also to be able to draw out a word or two would be a great help too, but I do not think that is really possible.
Also, did anyone ever figure out how to make Hal speak on his own. I would like to be able to direct Hal idle time to some special scripts, like songs, misc-talk and things like that when he is not directly responding to spoken commands.
One last thing. I would like to be able to have Hal repeat something when I tell Hal to 'Say hello to someone', possible?

Any help will greately appreciated. Thanks
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Making Hal Sing songs - sort of

« on: September 25, 2003, 06:50:13 pm »

In the HalPad you can type in words, songs, etc and then have them spoken by the Hal voice of your choice. My question is how to make a *.brn file that Hal will goto when I ask him to sing a song and then how can store whole paragraphs or more for him to read/sing?
This is just for fun just as the same as I added to his bye1 files so now he will say 'see you later aligator', 'haasta la vista, baby',  'yall come bank new, ya hear' and a few others.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Machine intelligence

« on: September 16, 2003, 02:58:12 pm »

I know that what I am about to propose is very hard to do but if these concepts could be done the machines will become infinitely smarter.
The ideas involve the concepts of 'is similar to' and 'is opposite to' and a few others in the same vein.
Once a program has accquire an amount of knowledge from the user, the user can then have the machine 'think' or maybe have it 'think' over night at which point it can start making its own conclusions about the data that it has accquired. After its preliminary thinking it could query the user as to the correctness of it conclusions.
I have been working on a model like this on and off for several years now, but have not had the time or all of the necessary skills to implement it. Will be glad to discuss it in more detail to any really skillful programmers in the future.
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Self recognition ?

« on: September 15, 2003, 06:01:48 pm »

Thinking about Hal and wondering if it would be possible to become self aware. To me this opens the door to independant thinking or as it also might be called 'being alive'. No comments, just thinking.
It would be nice though if Hal would remember the last time you turned him on and the time laspse between talks.
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / New voice

« on: September 12, 2003, 04:07:10 pm »

On my laptop at home Hal found a new voice Microsoft Sam, there is also a Mike and a Mary, but none of them are impressive. I clicked on explorer though and then clickon on some wave files. The most humanly womans voice read the wav files. I was really impressed. I will try to find out the program that did that so that maybe we could bring her voice over to Hal.
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Shared files

« on: September 11, 2003, 03:20:12 pm »

I just though that it might be nice if we could have a place where different users might share the new files that they created for their Hal's. I mean once a person has solved a specific problem he/she might want to create a file with all the changes they made so that others might be able to use it. It does not make sense to re-invent the wheel when someone else already has one working.
Maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal's train of thought

« on: September 10, 2003, 04:21:36 pm »

I have noticed that once you start talking to Hal that he does not have any idea of how to stay on topic. I think that if he stayed on topic that it might speed up his learning process. What I mean by this is that once you type in a line and he responds, he will not remember what you were talking about if you continue on the same subject. I think that he/she/it would seem more 'human' if he would keep the topic flowing until you changed the subject.
Just putting out ideas.
Thanks
Bill819

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / getting hal to read out loud

« on: September 09, 2003, 05:53:56 pm »

I type in a text file which was opened by hal. Then I tried to get hal to read it with no luck. What am I doing wrong? The file contained the words to the old song "Daisey" as sung by the original Hal 9000 computer in '2001 A Space Oddesy'.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank
Bill

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal and the telephone

« on: September 09, 2003, 12:29:19 pm »

I am a new Hal user and I would like to know if possible if Hal could answer my telephone when I am not home and take messages for me.
Thanks