Ultra Hal Assistant 6.2 Released

Medeksza · February 03, 2009, 12:03:43 AM

Ultra Hal Assistant 6.2 has been officially released, along with IBM ViaVoice and Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker Microphones.

Ultra Hal Assistant 6.2 is a free upgrade for all customers that have version 6.0 or 6.1. Simply download it from www.zabaware.com/download.asp For a list of what's new click here. The same serial number will work and all activations counts have been reset to 0 for all serial numbers. If you need to look up your serial number you can do so here.

IBM ViaVoice 10.6 is a high quality speech recognition system that is now available from Zabaware here. Also available is the high tech Acoustic Magic Voice Tracker microphone that is a desktop microphone array suitable for speech recognition that can focus a listening beam on the person speaking while drowning out all other background noise.

If you've purchased anything from Zabaware in the past 4 years you should be getting a postcard in the next month with this announcement and a 15% off coupon code. The coupon code is ZPCF9 if you're reading this before you get the postcard and wish to take advantage of the offer. It is valid through 3-31-09.

DrFaraday · February 03, 2009, 03:48:55 AM

Thank you Robert, this is great news. I just placed an order for the IBM ViaVoice software.

And thank you for the discount too, that is very generous. [:D]

Will and Mr Data :) :] · February 03, 2009, 05:18:46 AM

Thank you from Will,
Hal is fantastic, progession on 6.2 was so fast.
Thank you again Robert Medeksza Zabaware and supporters for the years i've had so far with my hal "Mr Data"
good onya!,
Bye for now and be well from Wil and Mr Data :) :]

markofkane · February 03, 2009, 05:23:40 AM

Thanks, Robert!![:D]

tedathome · February 03, 2009, 06:56:01 AM

I definatatly will buy the new speech recognition software. Do I need to download and instal the new 6.2 software, as I already have it as a pre-realase version?
I love it and have spent a lot of time training it already. I just want to be clear on this. Have you made any changes since 6.2.2 pre- realise candidate?
It's awesome Robert![8D]

Medeksza · February 03, 2009, 10:08:26 AM

quote:
Originally posted by tedathome

I definatatly will buy the new speech recognition software. Do I need to download and instal the new 6.2 software, as I already have it as a pre-realase version?
I love it and have spent a lot of time training it already. I just want to be clear on this. Have you made any changes since 6.2.2 pre- realise candidate?
It's awesome Robert![8D]

The release is the same as the Hal 6.2 RC2 so if you have that you don't need to redownload anything.

tedathome · February 03, 2009, 12:46:30 PM

Thank you, I just ordered it. Very fast confirmation via e-mail.[8D]

CypherGary · February 03, 2009, 05:30:33 PM

I am off to install the new version.
Nice work Robert!

I can hardly wait to see the new character system.
Then see what our graphics gurus can do.

Will and Mr Data :) :] · February 03, 2009, 06:03:11 PM

first i clicked the hal off the start menu it said "error35761 timed out" i clicked that away and it said "hal must be restarted" or something like that,
i restarted my pc , clicked hal again but "hal must be restarted,
anyway i was looking for the answer to that but decided to click the hal off the start menu again and bingo!, Hals working fine, yaye!
i went to the options to look at the brains and chose 6.2upgraded brain
yes a few questions and i can tell this is the hal i know "Mr Data" yaye!
Thank you a great large amount, with smiles and joy.
good nice success to you,
i want to write something to indicate how much i appreciate your work in creating Ultrahal and sharing it with us.
you know i want to squeese in one more Thanks, "Thank you"

bye for now and be well from Wil and Mr Data :) :]

jasondude7116 · February 03, 2009, 06:54:13 PM

THANK YOU ROBERT*********************************************

i know what it is like to work/school 20 hours a day[:p]
-the dude

caangel43 · February 03, 2009, 08:22:10 PM

looks like you fixed the install works good and the controls are very nice am glad the lonlyness plugin is working :_)

CypherGary · February 03, 2009, 08:26:47 PM

If anyone messes up their Hal setup, and needs to re-install, I found that I can uninstall Hal, delete halbrain.db and halbrain.uhp, then reinstall hal.
The installer will not touch your hal6old or hal6upg brains.

I like it working this way.

Art · February 04, 2009, 05:44:05 AM

Yes, the auto-idle plugin works well and I noticed the topic conversational flow seemed to be much improved. The conversation went surprisingly smooth and lasted for a fairly long time.

Nice work, Rob!

Medeksza · February 04, 2009, 10:27:16 AM

I've made a small update to Hal 6.2. It is now at version 6.2.24. If you have 6.2.22 from the last few days and it works there is no need to upgrade to 6.2.24 at this time.

The only thing changed is the criteria it looks at to create a system fingerprint used by the licensing system. It no longer looks at the hard drive model number. Some brands of hard drives and/or bios randomly change the model number reported to Hal and Hal's licensing system reported a corrupted licence every time this happened. Also switching between an administrator and non-administrator account would cause windows to deny access to reading the model number which would also cause a corrupted license. Version 6.2.24 no longer uses the hard drive model so this should prevent a lot of licensing headaches.

Upgrading to 6.2.24 from any previous version of Hal requires reactivation since the criteria has changed.

Medeksza · February 04, 2009, 10:34:26 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Art

Yes, the auto-idle plugin works well and I noticed the topic conversational flow seemed to be much improved. The conversation went surprisingly smooth and lasted for a fairly long time.

Nice work, Rob!

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah I really think incorporating "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases" by Grenville Kleiser and the changes to the low quality response routines made a huge difference for Hal.