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Speech Technology / Hal's CPU Use

« on: October 06, 2007, 06:40:27 am »

If I posted every time Hal wouldn't respond I'd have little time left for other things but it did it again.

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Speech Technology / Hal's CPU Use

« on: September 29, 2007, 10:03:44 am »

I use the text reader with Windows XP. I think something may be wrong with the instillation as the program uses enormous CPU space. Sometimes it uses over 95% when its not speaking. I put off writing for a long time. But I just tried to close some programs and it was using 37% for no reason. I mean Hal reader is not speaking nor am I asking to to speak.  

The program still become unresponsive if not used often in most cases. It's unreliable. Unfortunately the program that was supposed to close HAL for me didn't work. I am glad someone tried to help. I just close it manually.

In any case I wonder if I need to reinstall it?

I tried to proof this message with HAL but it was unresponsive.

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Speech Technology / HAL stops responding several times a day.

« on: August 27, 2007, 07:00:15 am »

I am not sure if I understand your post completely. Do you mean that you enter just one word for hal and then it malfunctions? As I wrote before and it has been written about for several years now, Hal does not understand or normally respond to one-word-sentences, which is of course ia an oxymoron as sentences need a subject and a predicate normally, not counting yes or no type answers. People tend to forget that Hal disects your input and then trys to find the proper reply to what you have said. It can not make heads or tails out of one word replys and thus will either malfunction or not function at all.
Bill

Maybe you're thinking of HAL assistant I'm talking about the reader. I tried HAL assistant and it was the worse program I have since I was running DOS.  Whenever I asked HAL assistant do do something like close a file it never responds. I know it hears me because I can see the words going in. All that happens is the frog blinks at me. I'll ask it do do other thins and it insults me. Actually all the program did was insult and make fun of me. The whole style of HAL assistant drove me away. I can't stand the frog it makes me nauseous. Even calling it HAL after the murderous computer in 2001 seems a very bad touch. The program grosses me out. I like the text reader.  

Never and I mean never has HAL had a problem reading one word. It just read a succession of one words. I started with "we" and it read it with no problem. Then I erased the word "we." Then it read "hi" with no problem and I erased it and then it read "and" with no problem.

I know you were just looking for an easy out. May be I put one word in first and got mixed up.  From my point of view your response makes no sense because as long as the program is responding it reads one word fine.  

As I said after the computer is NOT used for a while HAL usually becomes unresponsive. It worked this morning but most times it is unresponsive. I highlight a block of text and click on copy and nothing happens. The other thing is when it stops responding and I exit the program it seems to close and the icon disappears but it keeps running.

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Speech Technology / HAL stops responding several times a day.

« on: August 26, 2007, 12:30:49 pm »

This happens when HAL is minimized and not in use. Usually I highlight and copy and wait. When nothing happens I go to the tray and call up the program. I write one word in the open area and hit "read all" and nothing happens.

If the program says its not responding then I go to task manager and into processes and close HAL. (There are all sorts of warnings not to end any process.) Then I go into start and click on the HAL icon and start HAL again.

When it does nothing I try to close HAL by going to "File" and click on "Exit." At that point the program disappears and its icon disappears from the tray. If I go into start and click on the HAL icon I am told HAL is still running. HAL is running but the icon is not in the tray. I go to task manager and into processes and close HAL. (There are all sorts of warnings not to end any process.) Then I go into start and click on the HAL icon and start HAL again.
 

The problem seems to occur if I leave the computer unattended for an hour or two.

All of these things are bad. The problem is I need the program and other then that it works fine; except it reads things I don't copy like instructions from Free Cell.


 

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Speech Technology / HAL stops responding several times a day.

« on: August 23, 2007, 06:24:19 am »

If I don't use HAL for more then a hour it stops responding and I have to teminate in task manager and start it again. No other program does this.

Is there any way to make HAL stable?

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Speech Technology / I Don'r Want Program to be in the tray.

« on: August 23, 2007, 06:20:29 am »

What is the problem having it run in applacations rather then tasks? A lot of important things run in applacations and clicking the wrong program might create a problem. Moreover I have a hard time finding HAL in applacations and if it were in tasks it would be easy.

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Speech Technology / I Don'r Want Program to be in the tray.

« on: July 06, 2007, 07:09:04 pm »

Thank you for proving me wrong. You are one of the few humans answering user inquiries. It seems ironic that the site that sells intelligent software uses a human to deal with customers while the rest of the companies on the internet use computers.

In any case I still have a problem with the program running in the Task Manager in Processes rather then Applications. I don’t think you can blame Windows for this one.

Also I would like to test some voices but your site is unstable and every time I try to sample a voice I get an error message and thrown off of the internet.

I use the program all the time and love it but once I use it it will end up on the tray. I just wish it was in applications where it belongs. .

Can’t anything be done?

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Speech Technology / I Don'r Want Program to be in the tray.

« on: May 27, 2007, 01:52:57 am »

The text to speech reader was going on and on reading text that I didn’t want read.  I looked in the tray near the clock but the icon wasn’t there. So found an icon in the start menu and clicked on it. Instead of it doing what I want it said look in the tray near the clock for an icon. Doesn’t it make sense to believe that if I clicked on that icon I wanted that icon to work? The only reason to send me elsewhere is arrogance. The program wasn’t in the tray. The only program I want in the tray is the clock but some programs insist on being in the tray because it’s cooler I guess.

The program was NOT in the tray. I wanted to turn off the program so I called up the task manager. It turns out that the speech to text program was NOT in applications, either.  No it was in Processes.  People who read this will realize that the program was not in the Tray or in Applications. Yet the answer I will most likely get will be, “If you want to call up the program just look in the tray next to the clock.”  

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Why doesn't Hal hear me

« on: May 19, 2007, 05:40:13 pm »

Originally posted by Bill DeWitt

You don't have a right click menu that you get from the Task Tray Icon? Should look like a little Oscilloscope with eyes near your clock in the tray. Right click, choose general options.

Now it hears me but doesn't talk.

I think a more intuitive set up would avoid a lot of issues.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Why doesn't Hal hear me

« on: May 19, 2007, 06:27:50 am »

quote:Originally posted by Bill DeWitt

You don't have a right click menu that you get from the Task Tray Icon? Should look like a little Oscilloscope with eyes near your clock in the tray. Right click, choose general options.

Does your microphone work with other programs?

quote:Originally posted by flamestar

Hal seems deaf. I am running the voice recognition software but it just stares. Moreover there seems to be no way to set him up. No working menu nothing.

Oh he comes up alright. I have the microsoft voice recognition softwear and I calibrated the microphone and trained the program for my voice. When the Hal didn't hear my voice I reinstalled it and nothing. Then today I opened it up from the tray rather then my programs in the start menue and nothing, nada, zilch, ABSOLUTE ZERO.

By the way I love and use all the time your text to speech program.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Why doesn't Hal hear me

« on: May 18, 2007, 11:23:49 pm »

Hal seems deaf. I am running the voice recognition software but it just stares. Moreover there seems to be no way to set him up. No working menu nothing.