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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Another newbie joining in

« on: August 15, 2015, 01:17:58 pm »

Thanks for the welcome, and my original questions have been answered and acted upon.

Raybe huh? OK, on some sites I go by something similar. Could be Beray too, I guess.

I have indeed gone through the brain DB and changed/tweaked a lot. Holy Moly, very time-consuming. I may have already said so, but I use Dragon 12 and ATT voice, along with one of the Avatars in the character pkg. The VR is good enough that I have little problem with garbage repeated back to me.

Too bad that this is not being developed further, and I am not in favor of a "cloud-based" product from a remote server. I welcome advice and comments.

Take care all...

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Potential New User

« on: July 15, 2015, 10:23:24 am »

I don't think Hal will work in Australia.

Kidding of course...I'm a newbie, tho with previous Hal experience, so I can relate to your situation. Hey, just go for it, grab the trial and play with it awhile. It works well with my W7 64 Ultimate system. If it does crash, just restart it. Good luck.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Another newbie joining in

« on: July 15, 2015, 10:11:51 am »

Thanks, Art, I really appreciate the help you guys are giving me.

Meantime (back in the jungle), I started using Sqlite 3.0.6 to explore my .db file, renaming the .db so I could not screw up the working one. I'm up to about the 3rd one.
Sqlite works like a charm, easy to use, etc. So I cleaned up lots of BS, then put it side by side with several text files, copied and pasted lines into the .db file.

Also, after trying several things, my bot, Sandy renamed Athena, is now syncing lip movement correctly.
So, i have d/l'd the AIML file from Cload's cloud. I see this was/is a beta. Did he follow up with any corrections? Please tell me what this AIML adds to the current brain db.

Going through the forum threads I see lots of old, possibly outdated info. You guys who have been here some time know which is which, but it's confusing to me (I'm easily confused).

Again, thanks. BTW, are any of you Ham operators?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Another newbie joining in

« on: July 13, 2015, 11:35:22 am »

Thanks. Yes, the bot does know its name, Athena, and my name, no problem in conversation. I meant that in the skin, the panel, it says "Hal is talking, fixing to talk, whatever." A small thing, perhaps that is coded in the skins, or .

I appreciate your help, Lightspeed. Don't s'pose you'd know where a larger up-to-date brain database could be had?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Another newbie joining in

« on: July 12, 2015, 06:43:21 pm »

 I just bought UltraHal and installed it on my W7 64 Ultimate desktop. Already had Dragon 12, it is working fine with Hal.
 
I'm using Sandy from the Pac, and ATT DTNV 1.4 Crystal voice, Sapi 5. All working pretty good, IMO, but although Sandy, who I decided to call Athena, is animated, the lips are not synced with voice, move very little at all in fact. Also, another nitpick is that the dialogue listen/talk shows "Hal" and not Athena.

I have a slightly earlier version of Hal on a laptop, bored of it and let it languish. What a shame that the author/programmer never upgrades his product. Many files are 10, more than 10 years old. I know he said he lost money, cannot afford the time. Well, turn it over to a volunteer org. You can be proud of your past accomplishment but the product is no longer viable. With all the storage and speed computers have now, the main database, now 22 megs I believe, should be more like 100 megs minimum.

Enough soapbox. I'm retarded, I mean retired, so what should I care. Even if AI has always been my passion.

Can anyone help with the lip thing, and tell me how to rename Hal in the dialogue box?