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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Winner of loebner AI contest

« on: October 22, 2007, 09:37:21 am »

Congratulations to Robert and Hal (of course), I readed about the loebner prize.
It was finaly shown, the best of all.

Sorry check the news http://alicebot.org/

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / My newbie observation...

« on: March 14, 2007, 11:04:20 am »

Agree with Bill

Before know HAL, I tried to learn AIML, but I found it too deterministic (all coded).

Altho ALICE in it's esencial way is absolutely deterministic (with some lists of posibles responses to some patterns), there are some other enhances that can make it better suited ALICE like OpenCyc (wich shared database looks geater each day) that tries to give AIML the ability to relate things (relational databases) like dog is a mammal and the mammals are....

But HAL is a lot more flexible, I think it's an adventage to learn by conversation, because the answers that suit somebody may not be fine for somebody else. Maybe as Bill pointed out, if you download the Huge OpenCyc database ALICE may have a big deal of knoledge and could perform fine, but it still will not have the hability to learn or do other things, with the apropiate peripetals HAL has no limits. As somebody said once in this board, maybe if we put together both ways a better assistant could emerge.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin Color format (SkinUserBGColor)?

« on: October 24, 2006, 09:44:07 am »

quote:Originally posted by Bill DeWitt
I also read a post about this which suggests that the format is (red+(256*green)+(256*256*blue))

right in VB

Public Function rgbtocolor(r As Byte, g As Byte, b As Byte)
  rgbtocolor = r + (g * 256) + (b * 65536)
End Function

Public Function colortorgb(color As Long) as string
Dim r, g, b As Byte
  r = color And 255
  g = (color  256) And 255
  b = (color  65536) And 255
  colortorgb = r & "," & g & "," & b
End Function

Color white is not "255255255" but 16777215, red=255, green=65280
and blue=16711680

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Loebner Competition 2006

« on: September 22, 2006, 09:24:12 am »

Robert, congratulations, you and the others that added scripts to HAL made him/her more human like, you should be proud of the result and think that second or first is the same, HAL is the best.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / A.I Suggestion Box

« on: May 05, 2006, 10:24:12 am »

How about brain creation about a character in a book, tell the program wich character is the brain for and extract the brain for such character in such book. The difficult part could be to seek wich text comes from a specific character.[8D]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / H E L P

« on: April 20, 2006, 09:39:42 am »

quote:Originally posted by needafix

right now finding it impossible to convent a 268,000 bytes ( v small ) text into a wave file and the burn to a cd or two - whats the fix ??

You can use TTS and direct output to file, but if you want it ogg, you will need another program to translate to ogg.

In vb6 a form with a command button (to execute), 2 textboxes (to specify  text to speek <text2> and file<text1>) and a directSS object (TTS)

Private Sub Command1_Click()
  'TTS.CurrentMode = 21 'Only if you want to change to a specific mode (21 is for spanish male), if not specified it uses the default.
  TTS.FileName = ""
  TTS.FileName = "c:\" & Text2.Text & ".wav"
  TTS.Speak Text1.Text
End Sub

also there are programs that do it (send TTS to file) like elocutor.

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Speech Technology / Text to Speech Reader has problems creating .wav

« on: March 28, 2006, 08:13:08 am »

quote:Originally posted by Art
Any clues? Were the voices supposed to be installed BEFORE installing Hal? (wouldn't make a whole lot of sense but hey...I'm reaching).
Comments appreciated.

IMHO You got it, but it's Haptek or use the Haptek SAPI Config to recognize the new TTS.
If a new voice is installled, Haptek doesn't recognize it until such utility is executed.

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General Discussion / Greek-Speaking Haptek characters

« on: January 11, 2006, 02:10:52 pm »

You can use "Lernout & Hauspie" that is free (MS) as spydaz said or loquendo but change it to ogg (maybe you will need to change to wav an then to ogg), the Haptek head will use it more or less fine.

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General Discussion / Greek-Speaking Haptek characters

« on: January 11, 2006, 09:27:27 am »

Maybe sound like a dumm question but ...

Why don't use a program to change the TTS to ogg.

BTW Haptek has a program something like "the fantabulous Phoneme Finesser"

check:
http://www.haptek.com/developers/HaptekGuide4/MakinContent/advanced/LipSync/HapPhonemeEdit/docs/HapPhonemeEdit.html

look like is free (for non comercial purpouses) but not found references to the whereabouts of this utility, if somebody knows where is please tell me.

note: The problem with greek is that uses unicode, I have seen LivingActor (something like MSAgent) using it but the PhonemeEditor could be your ticket.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / need a dragon 3d charaacter

« on: July 29, 2005, 09:38:00 am »

The best angel I know is angel from http://www.mediaphora.com/ieus.htm but it's the company looks dead already and altho they share their technology, no documentation whatsoever and looks like it uses mbrola speech technology insteed of TTS (but can use wav files), so I doud if ever HAL support it.

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General Discussion / Need help with Translation

« on: July 07, 2005, 09:51:26 am »

just thinking, If nobody knows turkish, ask that guy to use another language, like french, maybe is more familiar with french and there are a lot of translation services free for french.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Free skins for fullbod female

« on: May 09, 2005, 09:25:43 am »

I also would like all the skins for the full body female.

crunch, could you send them to me, please?

ldlarsen@terra.com.mx

Thanks.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / how could i capture words into an array

« on: April 08, 2005, 03:29:04 pm »

Amasing, IMHO many of us, will be expecting your App.

I don't understand your request, you look like a good programmer, but if you want to make an array of words of a User sentence of characters english alike (not ä or é or else), must look something like this.

Dim Words(130) As String, WordIdx As Long

Sub SplitByWords(ByRef USERSENTENCE As String)
Dim CH As Byte, i As Long, j As Byte  ' Note that strFields is a dynamic array of strings
  WordIdx = 0
  For i = 1 To Len(USERSENTENCE)
    CH = Asc(Mid(USERSENTENCE, i, 1))
    If (CH > 64 And CH < 91) Or (CH > 96 And CH < 123) or CH=39 Then
       j = j + 1
    Else
      If j <> 0 Then
        Words(WordIdx) = Mid(USERSENTENCE, i - j, j)
        WordIdx = WordIdx + 1
        j = 0
      End If
    End If
  Next i
  If j <> 0 Then Words(WordIdx) = Mid(USERSENTENCE, i - j, j) Else WordIdx = WordIdx - 1
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim i As Long
   SplitByWords speaktext.Text
  For i = 0 To WordIdx
    MsgBox Words(i)
  Next i
End Sub

being speaktext your textbox

I hope to understand your question and that this code could help you.

[Download Attachment:]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / install

« on: April 07, 2005, 10:19:20 am »

Just an idea, why don't try to focus the seach field.

Try an Haptek application, It's easy, just enter to their site and look for the examples. http://haptek.com

Try download an application with text to speech and test if the text to speech application works, if you don't know any I provide one I changed a little from somewhere.


if both work try installing HAPTEK utilities

if still the same;

Download Attachment: TTslist.zip
8.16 KB it's HAL application.

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General Discussion / character software

« on: March 16, 2005, 09:06:22 am »

Check this
http://www.maxon-computer.com/index_e.html

I am not sure but may work...
BodyPaint 3D