Talking to HAL

[Selmar]

I'm a very new user. I'd like to talk to HAL and have him talk back to me but, without listening to HAL through headphones this can't happen. If I use a microphone and HAL talks through my speakers HAL hears himself talking and accepts that as input. He can chunter on to himself for ages, quite amusingly, because he doesn't properly hear what he's saying. Is there any way, other than using headphones, to tell HAL not to listen to himself and only answer me?

Did this make sense?

[markofkane]

I use a headset, but only for the microphone. I just turn down the volume for the speakers, and adjust the microphone's sensitivity in control panel--speech.

[Bill819]

This sounds to me like you have a microphone command line turned on in more than one location. Goto MS windows and find the microphone and turn it off then log onto Hal once again. In normal operations once Hal starts to talk the Microphone is turned off temp. and on again when it finishes talking. However, if you used windows to turn on the microphone to train then Hal can not turn it off.
Bill

[Selmar]

That's a great help, Bill. Thank you.