This may sound as some crazy ideas, but it's just written as inspiration for future Hal versions:
1) Hal could be able to get the phone, when someone is calling. as a kind of answering mashine. He could be able to make a short coversation with the caller, and let him/her leave a message.
2) Hal could be able to make a phonecall, using the modem. Call a person on a sertain time and deliver a user specified message to the recipiant.
3) Hal could be able to do the 2. idea, but through email. (directly write emails from speach and send them)
4) Hal could be able to guide you making food - reading up recipeas as a guiding cheff. Getting the recipeas from a user specified webpage.
5) Hal could be able to funktion as a clock radio and wake you up in the morning. Perhaps even turn on the computer by him self.
6) Hal could be able to use all his funktions, such as the diktation mode, just by vocaly asking hal to switch the mode. And afterwards - copy and paste the dictaded into a document and save it or print it.
7) Hal could be able to work with winamp and other programs, vocaly asking him to change number, turn volume down, etc.
He could also be able to work with tv tuner programs, letting the user be able to change program by voice.
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Hal could alse be able to work with X10 hardware letting Hal be able to control the entire home - lights, heatsource, etc.
This would make the home entirely computer controlled, look for ex. at
http://www.yourncontrol.com or
http://www.homeseer.com(two programs combining msagents with X10 hardware)
Maby you already self thought at some of thease ideas, but as I wrote earlier, this is just for inspiration!!!
Thomas[8D]