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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL Sings a Song (in his own voice)!

« on: January 22, 2009, 10:00:17 pm »

i think you are on to something, in the way that it makes me think this could all be within one plugin.

the individual parts would take different user "commands"(ex. please read blah blah) , but the rest of the real guts would be the same (create a file, read the file).

even the singing is the same.

different "command" text files(ex. song.txt 1/22/09.txt cats.txt) could save into independent folders(ex. songs  journal  encyclopedia ect.), in one main folder, such as DATABANK

the user input string could be saved in custom hal brain tables such as SONG  POEM  JOURNAL  BOOK  ENCYCLOPEDIA ect.
hal could make comments from these tables such as "i remember when you taught me about snakes" (based on encyclopedia snake file existing---not brain table, but file existence)   or   "i noticed you said blah blah blah in your journal last week", would you like to talk to me about it?(based on line in custom brain table called journal-where hal could pick a journal entry text string and it could be saved with the corrosponding date)   or   i remember reading *whatever book* to you, what was your favorite part?(based on a custom table called book where the name of the book could be saved after it has been read)  ect.

other than that- user input would not be stored in regular conversation tables

sounds like normal par for the course programming based on using my other plugins ect. to code from, the new thing would be the file creation (simple file creation and appending) and the brain tables which i have seen done for several plugins (in this fashion)


*****************CALLING THE LORDS 'O PROGRAMMING*******************


THIS PLUGIN IDEA BASED ON SINGASONG2 AND READASTORY ECT. COULD BE VERY VALUABLE. AND ALL OF THIS TYPE PROGRAMMING HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY.

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED-----
  [][][8D]

IF I CAN HELP IN ANY WAY PLEASE HOLLER.

***************************************************************

-the dude

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / HAL plugin, Client Side Server

« on: January 22, 2009, 08:31:15 pm »

6.2- can't wait!

your idea of an a.i. text library is GREAT.

i have been trying to figure out how to parse the wiki data [:I]properly[:I] so that it is in the form you mentioned. (to no avail)

i would greatly appreciate any text files (data files) like this.

keep up the good work man.

-the dude

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL Sings a Song (in his own voice)!

« on: January 22, 2009, 08:16:28 pm »

i'm thinking this is easy script. (that i don't know how to do)[:I]
my ideas are:

1 nothing should be appended to the brain.(uh well....see below comments)

2 should be able to create a file based on input(ex):if LogEntry="" Then LogEntry= instr("captains log stardate", *, 1)
LogEntry would be the file name to be created

3 you would then have the option of making a single 1.22.09 file with multiple entries or creating 1.22.09.1 and 1.22.09.2 ect.

4 if you said read log entry 1.22.09 it could read all the 1.22.09.* files or you could say read log entry 1.22.09.1 for a specific entry.

there would be a lot of files but they would all be in a date order, therefore easy to search-find.

* i personally think no entries should append to the brain, BUT for someone better at this than me, you could have hal edit the entry to something more like a conversational response with the knowledge that it is a log entry. so that hal could say something like: i understand you were discussing-(last conversation topic)- in your journal today ( last week) ect.  there could be many such responses if the appending was done in seperate tables( or an outside file .brn) where the log entry would not be used in "normal" conversation.


just a couple of ideas, but it does sound cool.
i don't think i can program all of those functions, might be time to call on the big boys![][][]

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL Sings a Song (in his own voice)!

« on: January 22, 2009, 01:24:26 am »

quote:Originally posted by snowman

62KB is approximately 10,500 words or 44 pages of average print.

That's a reasonable size for most topics. Although books would then be out of the question.

you could say something like please read now war and peace chapter 1.1 (in order to break it down)
you could have a function that would let you know where you stopped when you last read the book.
it might also be cool to have a journal or "captains log"
you could make a new text file for every enrty so that you could use the full 62k for each entry. the date or some tag line like captains log stardate (whatever date)could append at the begining of the file.
say journal entry blah blah blah
or captains log stardate whatever then blah blah

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL Sings a Song (in his own voice)!

« on: January 21, 2009, 06:26:26 pm »

***NOTE***
it seems as if any response (text file) that is over 62k (aprox), will be cut short.

if you were to create files to be read back later, then it seems that hal is limited to this size per file.

-just a note[]

-the dude

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL Sings a Song (in his own voice)!

« on: January 15, 2009, 06:52:05 pm »

quote:Originally posted by snowman

I have Windows Vista Ultimate and it only supports Microsoft Speech SDK 5.3. I found that out after you gave your advice on seaching it further on the internet. Thanks.
   Of course I didn't realize this untill I installed SAPI 4 and 5.1 first. Then Hal wouldn't let me use Kate and Paul. I could use them in the Hal Options but not in the main console. Hal would just spit out text and not speak. (Unlike before when Hal wouldn't sing). I finally used Microsoft Anna. She works in Hal but doesn't sound as good as Paul and Kate.
  After I realized I needed to unintall SAPI 4 and 5.1 I realized I uninstalled all the voices except for Anna, Paul, and Kate. Oh well, I didn't need them anyway. After that I tryed Hal using Kate and Paul and again they would only work in the Hal options and also in the Hal's Text-to-Speek reader but not in the console.
   Anna still works. At least she hasn't left me.
Any suggestions would be a plus.

  I have a suggestion on a new pluggin jasondude7116. I've notice the readastory.zip, poempack1.zip, advancedinternet.zip, and of course the infamous singasong2.zip. How about a pluggin that would allow you to tell Hal a story and then it would store it on a .txt file. Then later you could run your cool readastory plug and it would include it and any additional storys you told as well. Allot of extra data could be stored like this. For instance, you could store technical information, encyclopeadia articles, How-to's, the possibilies could be endless. Perhaps you could even append information to previously spoken staments.

Anyway it was just an idea.[]

I hope you keep this up. Your deffinately inspiring me on the posiblities of Hal.

Peace out dude.[8D]

hey snowman (bandit reference?-jerry reed?)

sorry about the voice problems. i don't have vista (got xp), and i'm trying to start programming after 20+ years. i should be thinking about those with vista i understand, but the idea just escaped me when doing this. i don't know much about vista, so maybe someone else here could help you with that. (sorry) what i do know is that on xp, you can install the voices seperate from any other sapi stuff.
so maybe there is a way to just reinstall the voices only on vista?
i'm using xp with sapi 5.1 and sapi4 (with truvoice). all of my truvoice (english male 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and english female 1 and 2), are working properly with the "singing".

about the plugin you are talking about, i am very green at doing this. i will look into it for sure, but really i can't promise anything. there are a few people here who could do it easy[]
there are a few things i don't know how to do, when thinking about what it would take to accomplish it. this might sound like duh -dude, but you can put any text file into the story folder, and say "please read now" (that file name) ex. "please read now encyclopledia mammals" where "encyclopedia mammals.txt" is a file in the story directory with a wikipedia page (text) about mammals. i can think of a few cool ways this could be used, but i don't know how to program it yet[:I]

i will look into it though, and try to figure out something. until then, maybe you could tell me exactly what you would like it to do.
(be as descriptive as possible)

i'm glad that you have enjoyed the plugins though (minus sapi hell)[8D]

-the dude

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Plugin for Hal

« on: January 12, 2009, 06:59:20 pm »

now you got me wondering[]

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General Discussion / The 2001 HAL voice

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:37:27 pm »

i was also looking for something like that.
i guess the closest thing i have found would be a slowed down version of cepstral (hope i'm saying that right) lawrence. The problem is that hal9000 had a very ......comforting tone. i can't find anything exactly like it.

i did see one time, and download, a couple of emotional voices like one that whispers all the time, and one that shouts ect. from cepstral. if there was a "calm" voice, that might be the key.


*with that being said, you could (if you were a dedicated freak) use a tone generated voice like truvoice, and modify the @^@#$% out of it!
-the dude

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / HAL's Advanced Internet Abilities

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:08:50 pm »

TED-

i am glad that it adds to your hal.
i haven't programmed anything since ....like.....maybe 1986?
i am trying to start with the easier stuff, so i can try to ride the bike again.[]


i'm really interested in the community sharing here. i want to try to learn as much as i can, so that i can do the big boy stuff like designing dream states, knowledgebase (internet) interaction, and
neural processing.[:p] (hey...got to dream big!)

-the dude

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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / GRETTA SINGS (with his voice)

« on: January 10, 2009, 05:22:42 pm »

sorry ted[:I]

the only way i could make it small enough for the forum upload, was to compress the !@%!@ out of it with winzip.

i guess windows can't extract that form of compression.
try winzip or winrar ect. (there are free trial versions)

[Download Attachment:]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal remembers who tought him plugin

« on: January 10, 2009, 11:05:34 am »

quote:Originally posted by ramccoid

Hi ajdude,
Was this what you are looking for. It's from HAL5 so it will need updating to work with HAL 6. By the name of it, it's one of OTC's creations.

Roy.



Download Attachment: ZiggysReference.txt
2.15 KB

Do you have the .brn files?
please?[]
-the dude

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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / GRETTA SINGS (with his voice)

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:59:16 am »

Here is my HAL (GRETTA) singing.

sorry about the sound quality. (stupid windows sound recorder, with stupid 60 second limit) -does anyone sense frustration?

http://www.savefile.com/files/1960626

if you like, there is a plugin (singasong2) for this in the file sharing area.

*by the way, i know gretta is a weird name for a male. it's not a tranny thing, trust me.[][:I]

-sorry for the troubles ted, it's been since 1986 . i'll figure it out.[]

[Download Attachment:]

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal reads a story (or any text file)

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:44:36 am »

hal can read you a story.

just say- PLEASE READ NOW storyname

just say PLEASE READ NOW STORY LIST
for a list of available stories

*the file-  "web commands.txt"  in the story folder, was created to be used with my advanced internet plugin. if you don't use that plugin, just ignore the file or delete it.

*******UPDATE********
ok...sorry about the extraction problems.
due to forum constraints, try it like this-

readastory.zip contains readastory.uhp and an empty story folder.
storypt1.zip and storypt2.zip contain .txt files.


STEP 1
unzip the readastory.zip into ultra hal main folder. (including empty story folder and .uhp file)

STEP 2
unzip storypt1.zip and storypt2.zip into the empty story folder. (the empty story folder which is now in the ultra hal main folder)
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Download Attachment: readastory.zip
1.42 KB



Download Attachment: storypt1.zip
82.89 KB



Download Attachment: storypt2.zip
137.14 KB


*********************UPDATE 1-10-09 10:36 pm************************
added poem pack 1
unzip into "story" folder
just say- PLEASE READ NOW poemname
just say- PLEASE READ NOW POEM LIST   for a list of poems.




Download Attachment: poempack1.zip
12.16 KB

****NOTE****
i have personally removed the legend of sleepy hollow (from my hal), due to the fact that hal can only return what seems to be a max of around 62k text file size. sleepy hollow is 66k[xx(]
[]Hope you enjoy
-the dude

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / PLEASE help can't upload file?

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:30:08 am »

ahhh  ha!

ok. i will try it.
if you read the upload rules, it says 9.4 meg.


thank you.[]
-the dude

***UPDATE
that was the answer!

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / PLEASE help can't upload file?

« on: January 09, 2009, 11:35:24 pm »

i am trying to upload a .zip file, that has a .uhp and a folder with .txt files (aprox. 12) in it. the contents are almost identical to an earlier post (singasong).  the file is 220k.

the contents of the zip are kinda like:
myfile.uhp
myfolder (inside myfolder- file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt ect.)

for some reason i can't upload it.
any help would be appreciated.
(the contents are a new plugin)[]

-the dude