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Speech Technology / Using Neospeech with Ultra Hal Assistant

« on: January 28, 2005, 06:01:05 pm »

Does the voice work with the Hal Reader? I'm not sure whether the installation includes the required speech engine components. Do you have a speech engine installed and configured? You can download what you need free from Microsoft.

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General Discussion / Virtual Intelligence Matrix

« on: January 20, 2005, 09:18:24 pm »

I've been interested in the Virtual Intelligence Matrix project for quite a while. I wouldn't say that the demos are limited compared to the licensed versions; I think in most cases the most significant difference is the ability to save the state of the matrix.

My experience has been that the program is utterly fascinating for a while, and then becomes sort of boring. It's entirely visual at this point, with no use of language, and after a while one gets tired of seeing the (admittedly appealing) woman run around picking and planting flowers. I actually find the version in which she does cave paintings the most intriguing.

The boredom factor aside, the creator of this project (a PhD in neuroscience named Michael Colicos) seems truly committed to developing a revolutionary simulation of human cognitive and linguistic processes. He hasn't been very communicative lately, because, he says, he has been very busy both with his job and with the VIM project, but if you read some of his explanations and objectives on the site's message board, it's clear that he has a remarkable vision and a strong determination to achieve it. I hope he does, and I bought several licenses to support his efforts. Although I find it hard to believe he will actually manage to produce the results he seems to think he will, I'm convinced that he's sincere--and damned smart. Furthermore, he seems like a nice guy (I've corresponded with him a bit).

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Attn: crunch and zenman

« on: January 13, 2005, 08:45:42 am »

HAVE RECEIVED -- Thanks, Dreadstar & Zenman!

Many thanks to the created and talented people who are contributing to making UltraHAL such a great program. I would be most appreciative of receiving any/all new skins at sjs@rascils.mv.com.

Thanks.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Password

« on: April 06, 2003, 04:10:49 pm »

Please send the password to me also, or contact me to tell me how to prove that I have registered the program.

I've just bought UltraHAL Assistant for the seond time, having lost everything in a disk crash. I don't recall being reqired to furnish a password last time--or at least, not a password that had not been provided to me. But in any case, the password dialog that I see now when I try to install has the OK button disabled, so even if I knew the correct password, I don't think I'd be able to install.

I got a lot of enjoyment from this program and am eager to have it back. I must say it's quite frustrating to encounter this type of problem after purchasing a software license.

Thanks in advance for the help.

quote:Originally posted by Medeksza

An email has been sent out to all of you with the password and redownload instructions if you need it.