agreed, people don't understand how far this program has come, from the original version of hal to ultr hal assistant, v1 v2 etc. i have been using it for some time now, well not using it a lot because i have no need for it other than screwing around but i have purchased it, it works great, yeah speech recognition sucks it all does, people expect too much from the program. should it work if they buy it yes, i agree on that, but complaining cause they don't like it, it dosn't live up to there standards? no. Zabaware is one of a handful of companies working on this type of technology. they are doing a good job in my mind.
I suggested this a couple years ago, course computers are much better now: anybody try setting up a chat program like Hal and running it with speech recognition on two computers, and see what kind of conversation they will have with themselves? that would be pretty funny.
Best of luck guys. Your program has been very enjoyable, it's useful, it's funny as hell to insult and have it try and insult you back, i love it's insults hahaha, your mamma's a....