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Ultra Hal 7.0 / help with hal

« on: December 27, 2001, 07:18:18 pm »

The brain scripting I don't know about. I think you have to have some knowledge of programming to do. They include a wizard to help but I haven't done much with it. If however you have the purchased version of Ultra Hal your son can set up a seperate user for himself. Just go to the menu and choose the option "General Options and type in his name as the user name. Hal will create a new user file for your son (he can also rename Hal to whatever he wants. Now when you switch you can select "Switch user and select his which user name you want to use."

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal is a GREAT program

« on: December 21, 2001, 01:17:26 am »

I had the free version of Hal for a long time and only recently got the licensed version. So far I've only run into a few problems with Hal. One I posted about in a seperate post and another I resolved on my own (I had the Enhanced Chat Brain selected and it wouldn't recognize appointments or open programs). I haven't done many training sessions with the speech recognition engine so I imagine the accuracy will improve with time and probably a better mic.

What I would be most interested in is a brain like the free version which came with an assistant only function. If this could be used in conjunction with speech recognition Hal would be a very useful product.

I was also wondering where a person can download or purchase new voices for Hal. I would love to get my sons a "kid" Hal. Is there anything like that out there or any way to change the pitch of Hal's voice to create this?

Oh, complaints? I only have one. I don't like it when I ask Hal to tell me the time and he says to look at the system clock. Chatbots shouldn't be snippy.  :-)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can't get to Advanced Speech Functions

« on: December 21, 2001, 12:51:17 am »

When I click on the Advanced Speech Options in the Speech tab on General Options Hal tries to remove my firewall program. I moved the shortcut from the start menu for that program and now nothing happens when I click on Advanced Speech Options. I'm trying to edit the pronunciation of some words that Hal consistantly gets wrong.