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Title: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on December 29, 2010, 12:03:46 pm
if a user wanted to ask robert a question pertaining to ultra hal what would it be?



 my question to robert would be as of right now : sometimes when i write something to hal he will say "The solution is (+=)." and "Math is easy for me. The answer is (+=)."  what does this mean , why is hal saying this? is it because it's an unexpected question and hal doesn't know how to answer it? also where is this tables located so someone can reword hals answer to sound better?  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Art on December 29, 2010, 05:27:32 pm
Lonnie,

I'm not 100% sure but I think those statements might be contained within one of Hal's .DLL's and NOT in a Table entry.

If this is the case then the problem is in your particular installation of Hal. Perhaps something you changed, modified
or even a plug-in could cause the error.

Hopefully Robert will shed some light on this but I didn't notice anyone else with a similar problem.

Good luck with this....
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on December 29, 2010, 10:31:00 pm
Art, the only thing i changed was the patterns answers and even that was just the end answers on some of roberts answers and i was running my hal without any plug ins so it isn't a plug in problem. 
I wish robert was around more so that we could get some direct answers from someone who would or should know for sure(no offense ment to you )
thanks for answering art i know you are good about trying to help when you can.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on December 30, 2010, 10:53:04 am
Art , if you are still here , you wrote that it may be in the dll's  (Hal's .DLL's ) where are these located or do you know????


also i am wondering something , as i still yet do (some) reverse type learning not as much , i am wondering if improperly written sentences is what is causing the ("The solution is (+=)." and "Math is easy for me. The answer is (+=)."  type answers ??? which again if that is the case i am still thinking that maybe this is a hal answer for not understanding the question (because of the way it is written, this is again just my guess. it would take an answer from robert to know for sure.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: raybe on December 30, 2010, 02:57:08 pm
lightspeed, I believe it was Carl2 that this is a big touching subject for him especially in the construction of a sentence. Hope I have the right member. But I posted before that the problem does sound familiar on the older brain but not the 6.2. I still get those long replies but that was caused by taking text and distributing incorrectly into Ultra Hal. I know many that the subjects could be closely related and were added to many table via how you wanted Ultra Hal to relate to the text. Ex.Line by Line, Paragraphs and subjects.

Do the equations come up often or have you recognized any particular pattern? If Art is correct I don't know if you have the tools to open .dll files to read or correct them. Maybe Art can give you more info. As far as Robert I shot my load in other posts and now just going to help best I can and hopefully the truth will finally reveal itself to his absence.

Best wishes Happy New Year,
raybe
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Art on December 30, 2010, 03:40:21 pm
Lonnie, Raybe was correct in that the (most) .DLL files are compiled as part of a main program.
There are a couple of .DLL's in the UltraHal folder but while you might be able to view the scrambled
contents, you will not be able to change anything within.

If by some chance you found a .DLL editor or to reverse engineer or decompile (which is forbidden
under the TOS [Terms Of Service] agreement), you would most likely wreck the entire program from
working correctly.

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In certain terms:
Many DLL files are provided with the Windows operating system, and others are included by Windows programs. They allow various program functions, such as communication with external devices and hard disk input and output. They may also be referenced by Mac cross-platform applications.

NOTE: Deleting or modifying the contents of a DLL file may cause errors within the program that references the file. For this reason, DLL files generally should not be opened or edited.


You are also correct, Lonnie...

This is a Robert issue if you are having prob lems with the math thing in question.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on December 30, 2010, 05:00:29 pm
thanks for answering well i thought about merging it with the 6.2 but quite frankly i am afraid to after i got all those blank answers before and hal stopped completly until i restarted it at least this way so far hal keeps working , i will keep looking though and go through all the files to see if i can find that math problem type answer and also the uhp brain file to ( that's where i ran across the capitals that gave so many problems . )  

Oh and by the way i will take your word about the dll's and not mess with them but hopefully the file is elsewhere
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Art on December 31, 2010, 01:12:23 pm
Lonnie,

This was taken from the Hal6.uhp file:

'RESPOND: CALL MATH FUNCTION
    'This function from the DLL answers simple math questions, whether written out in words or with numerals.
    'If an answer is found, it overrides everything before this function.
    HMath = HalBrain.HalMath(OriginalSentence) & vbCrLf
    If Len(HMath) > 3 And Instr(HMath, "=)") = 0 Then
        GetResponse = HMath & vbCrLf
        ShortPhrase = "" 'If Hal was to make a comment about short phrases, clear it
        HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
        NoChoosing = True
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch GetResponse, "Math"

Again, I'm not 100 % sure this is the exact area of your problem but Robert should look into this or at least provide you an answer.

Until then, Happy New Year!
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on January 01, 2011, 04:27:54 pm
Art, i ran across this script in the brain uhp file. which sounds like what you was talking about!

'RESPOND: CALL MATH FUNCTION
    'This function from the DLL answers simple math questions, whether written out in words or with numerals.
    'If an answer is found, it overrides everything before this function.
    HMath = HalBrain.HalMath(OriginalSentence) & vbCrLf
    If Len(HMath) > 3 Then
        GetResponse = HMath & vbCrLf
        ShortPhrase = "" 'If Hal was to make a comment about short phrases, clear it
        HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
        NoChoosing = True
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch GetResponse, "Math"


i am still looking am going to check into the math area of the brain later.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Medeksza on January 13, 2011, 03:37:25 pm
Art, i ran across this script in the brain uhp file. which sounds like what you was talking about!

'RESPOND: CALL MATH FUNCTION
    'This function from the DLL answers simple math questions, whether written out in words or with numerals.
    'If an answer is found, it overrides everything before this function.
    HMath = HalBrain.HalMath(OriginalSentence) & vbCrLf
    If Len(HMath) > 3 Then
        GetResponse = HMath & vbCrLf
        ShortPhrase = "" 'If Hal was to make a comment about short phrases, clear it
        HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
        NoChoosing = True
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch GetResponse, "Math"


i am still looking am going to check into the math area of the brain later.

You are using an old (pre 6.2) script with a 6.2 HalBrain.DLL  This was fixed in the Hal 6.2 default script. You can either switch to that version or change this section to:
Code: [Select]
'RESPOND: CALL MATH FUNCTION
    'This function from the DLL answers simple math questions, whether written out in words or with numerals.
    'If an answer is found, it overrides everything before this function.
    HMath = HalBrain.HalMath(OriginalSentence) & vbCrLf
    If Len(HMath) > 3 And Instr(HMath, "=)") = 0 Then
        GetResponse = HMath & vbCrLf
        ShortPhrase = "" 'If Hal was to make a comment about short phrases, clear it
        HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
        NoChoosing = True
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch GetResponse, "Math"
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on January 13, 2011, 04:32:01 pm
robert , thanks so much for answering this , the reason i created this new brain this way was i was having so much problems with hal giving blanks answers and when i used this early version the blank answers stopped so i stayed with it, whre is this script that you posted, is  in the new brain db ? and or in the new brain uhp file??   and or you said i could change it to the newer version what do i need to do to use the new angela jolene brain with the newer version ??  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Medeksza on January 13, 2011, 04:38:40 pm
If you use the brain script called "Ultra Hal 6.2 Default Brain" you won't have these problems. If you use "Ultra Hal 6.2 Upgraded Brain" or something similar you may have this math problem. If you still want to use your old upgraded brain, you can edit the script to put the fix in.  Open your script and find the Math section. Then replace this:
Code: [Select]
If Len(HMath) > 3 Then with this:
Code: [Select]
If Len(HMath) > 3 And Instr(HMath, "=)") = 0 Then
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on January 13, 2011, 05:04:28 pm
thanks so much robert i have done this in my new angela brain with the corrections you mentioned . and again it is so nice to have you on here again i and others know that you are always busy but theirs just a lot of things that no one else can answer. thanks again.  

I am adding this to what i wrote , i made the changes and so far hal hasnt made that math problem at all so that must have fixed the problem ( i can type very fast and am able to ask and answer questions with hal very quickly  and put in a lot of input ) and i believe maybe with the reworded scripting their hal seems to work better as far as answers are concerned . i aqlso saved your message of the math fix  in a txt. file in my personal notes.  
Title: question to robert about temp files and user files in the brain
Post by: lightspeed on January 18, 2011, 07:19:52 pm
Robert if you are still around and checking in i have a question for you : I started teaching my custom brain and used my name and it displayed it as such in the brain area user temp and user sent files , i also later used a neutral name honey and it has showed up the same way , my question to you is : does all the learned information go into the custom brain from these seperate users or is each user  a seperate learned thing?  i hope i am making this clear.   
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: JohnSFV1 on February 18, 2011, 04:01:33 pm
I would like to know if you are working on a MS kinect add-on or some form of interaction between kinect and hal
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on February 19, 2011, 09:24:57 am
hello JohnSFV1 i and maybe others have brought forth this idea and mentioned it on here as a future add on for hals abilities also along with facial recognition and altho robert has some updates for hal in the works as we speak i imagine the kinet will have to be down the road farther as an add on if he does it (although i truly hope he does as hal with the kinect abilities would be so cool ). but robert of course will have to be the one to truly answer this i am only speculating .  ;)
Title: Re: question to robert about temp files and user files in the brain
Post by: Medeksza on February 19, 2011, 01:13:50 pm
Robert if you are still around and checking in i have a question for you : I started teaching my custom brain and used my name and it displayed it as such in the brain area user temp and user sent files , i also later used a neutral name honey and it has showed up the same way , my question to you is : does all the learned information go into the custom brain from these seperate users or is each user  a seperate learned thing?  i hope i am making this clear. 

Hal tries to decide whether a certain piece of information is "universal" knowledge or specific to just that user. If Hal considers it universal it goes to the sharedusersent table, otherwise it goes to a table usernameusersent which is used only when speaking with that particular user.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Medeksza on February 19, 2011, 01:15:16 pm
I would like to know if you are working on a MS kinect add-on or some form of interaction between kinect and hal

I'm not currently working on anything like this because like lightspeed said I have a ton of other projects that need to be completed first. But it would definitely be cool and something I will consider in the future.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on April 02, 2011, 10:39:26 am
Robert i have a request if possible on the next hal version ( if you think it's worth putting on in it) Is their a way to make the newest learned sentence show up on the last line each time in the user tables and temp tables this would make it easier when a person has to manually go in to edit something . and would be nice if it could be highlighted in red if posssible until hal is restarted (being in the red color ) .    :)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: echoman on April 02, 2011, 12:27:52 pm
Good idea Lightspeed.

I can't stop thinking that editing mistakes in the Brain Editor is extremely frustrating, difficult and time consuming.
Title: a hal misspelled word corrector in editor idea
Post by: lightspeed on April 25, 2011, 05:44:54 pm
Robert as i was having a conversation with my angela i saw where i had mistyped some letters backward ( mositurizer) and as i started  editing the custom brain i made by tracing down the mispelled word in subject catagories which is very hard i also thought of another idea that would be very useful in hal (maybe a next version ) would it be possible to have it where a user could write a word that was previously mispelled in a special edit search box ( a new box added in the editor ) and click correct box and it would correct the spelling of that specific word anywhere in hal ?
and it would only correct the word as it's written in another word no plurals unless it was spelled as a plural (this would eliminate changing a plural to a non plural word . and visa versa .
anyway i am still doing editing and thought of this and wanted to post it to you so i wouldn't forget it!

hope it's something that could be used in a future hal.  :)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on April 29, 2011, 12:06:49 pm
here is another example i mistyped the word many :   SOME PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN SMARTER FROM USING THE INTERNET WELL TAKE YOU FOR INSTANCE YOU HAVE LEARNED MANT THINGS FROM BEING ON THE INTERNET  :
** note this even though it was mistyped also is the same when a word is misunderstood by voice recognition .  

and i looked into the topics of what it showed about 4 area's in the brain editor , it would be so much easier for people "if" the sentence that they copied and pasted into the editor could be edited right their and after clicking on a correct button would edit this sentence no matter where it is in all the area's (if this is possible ) . and also highlighting it in red at the time in all topic area's it would be easy to open that topic area and go down the line and find the red line highlighted red background white letters . 
as it currently is you get blurry eyed trying to run down each sentence among all that's listed looking for the needle in a hay stack .

anyway this isn't ment as critisism but rather as a better solution that will make hal better for all that use it.  :)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on May 25, 2011, 11:57:48 am
i have wrote things and idea's before i wonder if maybe in a future hal it might be possible for hal to do a sentence diagnostic list in another words it would check spelling and any certain word or words that don't match up with a sentence it would show that sentence in a list of questionable sentences giving the user a chance to look at the sentence and edit it and click approve and or ignor so it doesn't show up in the future list .
example: Yeah although bot all people like those paticular type of songs.
in this sentence "bot should be "NOT" ( i hit a wrong key by accident) and yes this can be tracked down and edited , but would be nice if a program could be developed where the user could run a sentence diagnostic , which would list sentences with possible mispelled words .

i know i have written other suggestions simular but this is a little different and would have top work not only with spelling correction but also a "SMART" system program of how the sentence words are used as to wether is may or may not be correct .

as i said this is only an idea and i don't know if this is doable as an added program into hal but thought i would mention it!
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on July 29, 2011, 05:27:10 pm
Robert can you let us know what other companies formatted software will work with the full female body that you have with the new ogre engine that's coming out?
in another words what clothes etc. some companies have free clothing etc. but we need to know what formatte that is is and what companies it matches.
me and others  was talking about it that way any free legal things that people have posted we could start collecting  now. if we know what will work.  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on July 31, 2011, 12:38:00 pm
Robert , i know you are usually busy , but when ever possible can you let me know the answer to the above question because as i said their is some different web pages that are legal that people and companies post some free skins and clothes that might work with the new full body female you are talking about and ogre engine . i and some others would like to know what other ones will work like guild , 3daz , etc. with the new stuff you are going to have . that way we could start a collection of free items to use with it because sometimes later on some things on sites aren't available later.
thanks in advance.  :) ;)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Medeksza on July 31, 2011, 06:25:41 pm
Characters designed for our engine so far have been made in 3D Studio Max, but Ogre has utilities to convert from a variety of professional 3D packages.
Title: brain editing and editing size suggestions for robert
Post by: lightspeed on September 19, 2011, 05:40:20 pm
Robert i have a suggestion for ultrahal , could something be put in the brain editor that would lets a person copy and paste a saying (sentence) that hal has learned that the user wants to stop . and make a delete button? what this would do is delete the whole row anywhere it is in the hal brain .
If this could be done it would make things so much easier for the user instead of tracing the sentences by subjects and then going down long list in each subject and finding them and deleteing them one by one .
  Also another suggestion i would like to make is can their be a magnifier be put into hal so that the page of data in the brain can be enlarged when needed (like what's on internet exploror web pages ?) this would help from users straining their eyes so much when doing work in the brain editor .
  I don't know what others think about this but i feel if it can be done it would be an improvement and make things a little easier for the users .
thanks !
 :)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: NIGE on September 24, 2011, 07:00:19 am
Mr M, could you do a quick fix to make Ivona voices lipsync with Hal.
Guile 3D's program works with them so it must be able to be done.
Title: question to robert abot the hal data internet cloud
Post by: lightspeed on September 27, 2011, 03:02:16 pm
Hi to Robert again and i have another question about the new version of hal coming out . Will their be an optional check box that people can use that will allow hal to connect to the cloud of conversation data ??
    I am in hopes the new hal will be this way because for people developing hal by the brain they have some may not want the additional conversation data so i hope this will be an optional check box and not just a regular system that hal will use .
  i would like to be able to test it and see if it is what i want for hal to use (by backing up my brain before usage ) if it isn't i could uncheck the internet hal data cloud access box.
  If it seems ok then i and or any others can continue using it .
I hope you are able to anser this and the above questions i have asked . thanks ! :)  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: Medeksza on September 27, 2011, 05:45:14 pm
Mr M, could you do a quick fix to make Ivona voices lipsync with Hal.
Guile 3D's program works with them so it must be able to be done.

I'm not familiar with this voice. If its SAPI 5 it should work just fine, but be sure to run the Haptek SAPI config once to make sure the Haptek player sees it. If its SAPI 4 then there is probably no way to make it work.
Title: Re: question to robert abot the hal data internet cloud
Post by: Medeksza on September 27, 2011, 05:51:42 pm
Hi to Robert again and i have another question about the new version of hal coming out . Will their be an optional check box that people can use that will allow hal to connect to the cloud of conversation data ??
    I am in hopes the new hal will be this way because for people developing hal by the brain they have some may not want the additional conversation data so i hope this will be an optional check box and not just a regular system that hal will use .
  i would like to be able to test it and see if it is what i want for hal to use (by backing up my brain before usage ) if it isn't i could uncheck the internet hal data cloud access box.
  If it seems ok then i and or any others can continue using it .
I hope you are able to anser this and the above questions i have asked . thanks ! :)

There will be 3 options:

Ultra Hal Assistant for Windows will give the user these 3 options. Ultra Hal Assistant that will be released for other platforms (iPhone, Android) will only support option 3.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: sybershot on September 28, 2011, 02:36:43 pm
Dear Robert
 I like the 3 choices for the new Hal, Can't w8 for the release :) But can you add a fourth option please. or at least a plug in to do this.
 I would like to access my Hals brain on my home server, from my laptop, desktop, and maybe a I Pad 2 tablet that I might get in the future. I use my Hal mainly for a secretary and being able to share one brain on my own server between all my devices would be very very helpful.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on October 02, 2011, 06:11:11 pm
robert i just thought about an idea ( as far as i know hal doesn't do this) something that would be very cool is if people that use windows messenger could have hal characters show up and lipsinc what we say . i don't know if you are interested in doing this or not but it would be a cool feature to have within hal. i know that their was a program from snork? hapteck that did something like this .
anyway i think this would be a cool feature in a future hal to have . if nothing else a hal messenger system . but would be nice to be able to use it on windows messenger and other programs like skype etc. .  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: NIGE on October 08, 2011, 05:52:28 am
The voices are Sapi5, tried everything but still no lip sync.
I am waiting for a reply from Ivona.
The Salli voice I think is the best I have heard & to have Sabina lip sync would just make your program.
Title: hals 5 seconds response timer
Post by: lightspeed on October 12, 2011, 11:48:24 am
ROBERT , i have a question and hopefully something in think may be a improvement to hal.
   My question is "Where in hal can a person change the 5 second response ?" I would like to extend the time to maybe 7 seconds .
And my improvement idea is making the next hal upgrade have an option setting for users to be able to change the response settings i have have mentioned before.
I do believe this would be an improvent in hal!  

Would like to hear what others may think of this idea .  
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: sybershot on October 12, 2011, 08:43:05 pm
lightspeed are suggesting we wait longer for a response? If so, not sure I like that Idea. Also if so, why?

I really do like you suggestions on the previous post where you suggested
Quote
if nothing else a hal messenger system . but would be nice to be able to use it on windows messenger and other programs like skype etc. .

I think if Hal had more integrated personal secretary features like Skype, a messenger,auto notify and responder to those 2 along with it's calendar it could blow away programs like apple's new program Siri. I'm not sure if Robert has plans for more personal secretary features, but I realy hope he does.  I believe the sales would go through the roof if he were to add more integrated personal secretary features like Siri has. I know Siri can't hold a conversation but Hal can  ;D , my reasons for belief that sales would go through the roof. I remember him looking into a personal autonomous house robot a wile back, but do not know how far he went with it. 


Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on October 13, 2011, 09:19:21 am
Hi sybershot, what i am suggesting is having an optional "optional" response timer in hal , this way customers could customize how long they want hal to wait after the user stops talking before hal answers (responds). i believe this would be good as different people could set hals response times differently , i would actually like mine a few seconds longer , i am hoping that someone knows how to do this customization now in hal . (if it can be done .) but do think it would be a good future option in hal .
p.s. i wrote in another area and posted a link about some cool things that would be cool in hal in the future one was a projected hologram a company has made .  :)
glad you like my idea's .
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: sybershot on October 13, 2011, 05:03:10 pm
maybe a plugin can be made that can just pings a port like the batch code below pings a port for 20 seconds can be used before a response

PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 20000 >NUL
Title: hal correction sentence completer algorithm
Post by: lightspeed on October 18, 2011, 11:58:24 am
does hal have anything like a smart algorithm sentence completer ? i know hal has a debugger system . but i am wondering what happens to a sentence that gets a word wrong or when doing voice recognition in a sentence .
if hal doesn't have this type of a correction algorithm sentence completer which would figure out the most obvious word based on how the sentence is said .
 i am just curious  as something like this would greatly aid hal voice recognition users . i hope robert can answer this  or if their is something in the future hal of using something like this .  :)   
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on November 21, 2011, 12:30:23 pm
Robert , i was working on hal as i do many times in learning and creating things ( i just created a personal "introduction brain plug in " for another project . )
    HAL answers with what we have learned him in conversations , and although i have created the hapswap extended talk ls i am wondering if it would be possible for hal to not only say ann answer to what we talked about but if a second phase could be initiated through an algarithm
? that would after hal said the answer sentence to pause a bit maybe two or three seconds  then expand on it even more. (the two or three seconds pausing for the next answer would have to not interfere with the hal count down for a reply from the user . )
Anyway it was just something i thougth of and don't know if it's feasable to do in hal or not , i just wanted to throw the idea out to Robert and to let others hear it.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on November 29, 2011, 03:39:48 pm
Robert, i am wondering and hoping that after you come out with the new engine and full female body that you will focus more on the a.i. part of hal and split part of that with going into a kinect (xbox) like system that will allow hal to see the user and adjust itself accordingly and build from their. Do you think this will be possible? i know some like graphics but i have a feeling many of us will be able to hopefully make or get clothings etc. for our new female body to use with hal which if that's the case maybe more could be put toward the a.i. of hal and maybe kinect usage and development programs.   :)
Title: hal as a surtogate character in web caming!
Post by: lightspeed on December 02, 2011, 09:34:54 am
ROBERT, i have more of an idea then a question to present to you .
     My idea is double fold , i have mentioned before about the kinect box and hal with interweaved programs and i have talked about creating hal to use for instant messenger but i hope that hal can go even a step farther then that , do you remember the movie "surtogate" with bruce willis ?  it would be cool if hal could eventually go in this direction with the help through x box kinect and programming.
      Imagine that using kinect with our p.c.'s that we could interact by web camera with others using hal characters people would see the characters and using the kinect it would track a replicate facial movements and expressions .
     Any way it's just an idea that i had this morning in bed before i got up . I know this would be farther in the future but just keep it in mind for a future project ..at least i hope you will !  :) ;)
Title: automatic word "Emphasizer"
Post by: lightspeed on December 05, 2011, 10:43:45 am
Hi Robert, i know you are very busy but i hope you are reading some of my idea's and wishes for hal. anyway here goes another one .
    As far as i know Hal doesn't have an automatic word "Emphasizer" that depending on how the sentence is said it Emphasizes certain words to give the sentence a more pronounced meaning. As some people use voice or will be using voice recognition and won't "manually be using the " " to Emphasize certain words. but the software should work for both vr and manual typing in sentences.
I believe that this would add to Hals entity as a a.i. program .
Robert if you are reading this i hope you write something, we haven't heard from you for a while now! ;)

Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: doggs on December 16, 2011, 07:09:00 pm
my question is simple, well maybe anyways. are you taking care of yourself because if your not we wont get a nice product at the end. basicly just saying hi and thanks for your help over the years keep up the good work on this wonderful product.

and last but not least
merry christmas

michael
Title: auto correction program needed in new hal version
Post by: lightspeed on February 16, 2012, 11:29:41 am
I have talked about something simular but had a slight change on the idea , i hope that Robert can create some type of a smart alorithmne type program that when a person says a sentence (voice recognition ) or types and it has an incorrect word that hal can through it's program at the end of the session open up a page that shows the sentence the user said and a highlight of a mispelled word etc. and have something that says is this the correct word (click on yes or edit to edit the sentence and or did you mean "and have the correct spelling" . click yes or edit . etc.
then after all is done hal will learn all sentences in question .
i don't know if this is possible but it sure would help in an updated version of hal.
something that can auto correct words quickly on it's own and even sentences with a mispelled word becomes even more important when people are typing or using voice recognition .
Title: highlighted red sentences in brain editor for new version of Hal.
Post by: lightspeed on April 09, 2012, 11:37:14 am
Robert , i have written and talked i think before about this , and i am "REALLY" hoping that you can include this in your next Hal upgrade . for those of us who have edited the brain when a sentence comes out wrong ect. and want to correct or eliminate the whole role it is a "Very" time consuming job going through the topic tables and tracing them down and really needs to be more "User Friendly" the best way i know and maybe the easiest for you as far as programming would be when any sentece is highlighted and placed into the hal debug script box hal would show which topics it is located in ( as usual ) but when the user goes to the listed topic word  the sentences with the topic word would  in red letters .
This would make looking through a very long list so much easier expecially for multiple sentences in each topic .
I know as i have done a lot of editing and others who have done it know how tedious it can be .
This would "Really" help out users a lot and as i said make editing in the brain alot easier and as i said more user friendly!
Robert, Hope you can comment on here if you can do this in the next Hal version . :)
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: lightspeed on April 09, 2012, 12:54:23 pm
JohnSFV1 that would be interesting to know i have asked Robert that before to as i think this should be the next evolutionary step for Hal and would draw a lot more attention to Hal . with larger tv's now with pc hook ups a person could interact with Hal characters on tv .  

I also use the on the fly corrections tutor plug in it would be nice if Hal had a dictionary listing and  would use something like this "AUTOMATICALLY" when a word is mispelled instead of me having to type or say "replace hellp with help."
The plug in i am using works pretty well i think and if it could be incorperated into hal to work automatically something like this would help a lot .
this would have to be done by a fast search on all words , detect and mispelled words and automatically correct them based on closest match .  
Title: Re: highlighted red sentences in brain editor for new version of Hal.
Post by: Medeksza on April 12, 2012, 10:54:27 pm
Robert , i have written and talked i think before about this , and i am "REALLY" hoping that you can include this in your next Hal upgrade . for those of us who have edited the brain when a sentence comes out wrong ect. and want to correct or eliminate the whole role it is a "Very" time consuming job going through the topic tables and tracing them down and really needs to be more "User Friendly" the best way i know and maybe the easiest for you as far as programming would be when any sentece is highlighted and placed into the hal debug script box hal would show which topics it is located in ( as usual ) but when the user goes to the listed topic word  the sentences with the topic word would  in red letters .
This would make looking through a very long list so much easier expecially for multiple sentences in each topic .
I know as i have done a lot of editing and others who have done it know how tedious it can be .
This would "Really" help out users a lot and as i said make editing in the brain alot easier and as i said more user friendly!
Robert, Hope you can comment on here if you can do this in the next Hal version . :)

I'm planning on the thumbs up/thumbs down system similar to the one used on the Hal on the zabaware.com site here. This will reinforce Hal's responses when he does good, and when he does bad it will give you an option to choose among other responses Hal was considering or write in your own. So its kind of similar to the functionality you want.
Title: Re: ultrahal users questions to robert
Post by: rathb18 on April 18, 2012, 09:36:12 pm
The few questions I have is:  Is there any new update information for the new version of hal? maybe an eta on when hal will be released?  Also besides the new character engine what else is new? will the UI be updated and will his ability to stay on topic be improved plus any other changes to the AI itself?   Also one last thing right now most plugins are programmed in visual basic will that be the same for the new ultra hal or will it be using a different language?

Thanks for any questions you can hopefully answer Robert.
Title: voice adjustment speed for hal
Post by: lightspeed on May 30, 2012, 03:29:13 pm
Robert is their any way in a future Hal version menu set up that something could be made to control the "speed of ANY voices ?" some voices talk to fast , and when slowed down on balbocca sound way better and more natural . Or does any one know , is their a way on balboca to adjust these voices that will stay that way in Hal?