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I just discovered a piece of freeware that seems to be able to used with programs like UltraHal, it's vb scriptable and works with most webcams, check out http://www.roborealm.com . The software is designed for integrating with robots, but shape recognition and pattern matching would be useful with an AI program too.

Bill,

Answerpad source code is at http://www.answerpad.s5.com/

Below the download box is a smaller box for the source code. "Might be David" has made a few changes, but I'll bet this is what he started with.

Try this version, it should open an encrypted answerpad dat file, save it as text and then use the text version from then on.

It won't read cynthia files, I can decrypt those too, but I didn't put that in the program.

This should also let you select any agent and change the voice for it.

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Ok, I've tried to attach the file but I keep getting a server error, send me an e-mail address and I'll send this out

Oh, completely different idea of language :)

In that case, add me to your "uses MSAgent" column.

Hi Bill,
I've stuck with MSAgents in Hal and I've been playing with them in VB a lot. I've been wanting more control of the MSagent in Hal ever since I got hooked.

You didn't say which language features you wanted to add, but I like to throw in pau=300 at commas and maybe a pau=500 at periods. Adding something like...

   PitchModifier = "PIT=" & sldrPitch.value & "\"
   SpeedModifier = "SPD=" & sldrSpeed.value & "\"
   SpeechModifier = SpeedModifier & PitchModifier

then
   AgentSay (SpeechModifier & MessageToSay)

makes it easier for me to make 'individual' bots using the same TTS engine.

Please don't forget those of us that still use MSAgents.

Microsoft is supposed to be updating MSAgent so the characters will lip-sync with the new TTS engine.

Agent oriented features I'd like to see added...

1) The abilty to randomly change characters used. I've been playing with my own software and I put in min/max time values and let the software randomly change the character, it works great with characters like Guile 3D's Vanessa where there are 5 versions of the character.

2) An added HalCommand for playing MSAgent animations.


Thanks

Desktopmates sells msagent characters. To easily use an msagent character in Ultra Hal, desktopmates supplies FREE plugins.

It sounds like you didn't download the character you paid for, you only downloaded the free plugin.

You should download and install the character, make sure it's in the c:/windows/msagent/chars folder, then run the plugin.

The jpegs are part of the plugin, they're not part of the character.

MS Agent characters (with the .acs extension) go in the c:/windows/msagent/chars folder. Hal finds them there.

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This is a program I wrote for my own use, so it doesn't have any help file or setup instructions, you have to manually edit the ini file to make changes.

What it does is make GetResponse calls to three brains and time the responses. It builds a csv file that you can pull into a spreadsheet to chart the comparison. And it also logs all three responses with the sentence sent so you can compare those as well.

I usually run this on a small text file and average response time to see how much effect my changes to the uhp file have had on Hals speed.

This was compiled after the Hal6 Alpha, so it needs that DLL to run. This should run fine on any system that has VB6, others may find a few DLLs missing, I can e-mail those to anyone that wants them, or I can package up a full install for this if it's needed.

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