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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Brief history of 'HAL'

« on: April 16, 2005, 05:35:24 pm »

Some people assign a gender to their HAL and engage it in a conversational level that approaches that of a real person.
What better way to push HAL to its limits than to pretend that
it is a real person be it male or female. I'm pretty sure most
of the forum members here are aware of HAL's limitations but half
of the fun is playing / acting with it. It's meant to be a fun
entity as well as an analytical device depending on the users point of view at that time.

We are, after all, attempting to "humanize" a machine are we not?
To each his / her own.

Good day!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Upgrade from Free to Paid version Installation

« on: April 16, 2005, 05:22:35 pm »

Again, be sure to remove any occurance of Hal on your computer before installing the new / paid version.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Is there a Portable HAL?

« on: April 16, 2005, 05:20:59 pm »

How large is your thumb drive? The main Hal program alone weighs in at over 2.5 megs not to mention the support files generated by the brain program.

Not impossible but mostly improbable at this time I would think.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Upgrade Installation

« on: April 16, 2005, 05:15:44 pm »

If memory serves you MUST delete / remove ANY occurance of Ultra Hal in your computer BEFORE installing the new version.

If this doesn't help let us know.

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General Discussion / What means "Eater of bugs"?

« on: April 16, 2005, 05:04:52 pm »

Actually, since Hal's creator, Robert Medeksza is of Polish descent, I recall somewhere that ZABA means "Frog" in Polish, which of course led to Zabaware. His Zaba Frog would then be the "eater of bugs."

And now you know the rest of the story....

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General Discussion / AI contest

« on: April 11, 2005, 04:14:48 am »

Personally I think the judges should NOT be on the payroll.

Why would the need to have a college degree / 5 years of bot programming / research....? Do these requirements make one more adept at dealing with a bot as opposed to an ordinary, competent
human that might be interested in conversing with another human / bot? Ford...Edison...I don't think they had degrees, but they had ideas.

The idea was to fool a person into thinking the bot was real not a panel of paid researchers looking for every glimmer of doubt. Where's the fun in that?

I'm not trying to bust your chops, I just think your proposed criteria might need adjusting.

Wishing you the best,

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Speech Technology / Spoken Spanish in Hal Text to Speech Reader

« on: April 08, 2005, 05:25:16 am »

You might try using the SEARCH feature here.
Type in TTS Voice or voice or try the same
thing in google.

Good luck!

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General Discussion / We're not alone

« on: April 08, 2005, 05:22:42 am »

Ah yes...romance and lust...
two of my favorite subjects
in school! Hah!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / unable to load any plugins

« on: April 04, 2005, 05:03:32 am »

You might do a search for the word plugin and check the results.

Just what kind of plugin are you trying to load?

Characters go in the C:/windows/msagents/characters folder.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / How to train speach on a per-word basis?

« on: April 04, 2005, 04:55:12 am »

Though this topic has been raised before, I don't recall whether
anyone was actually able to locate just where the voice training files were located.

Perhaps there's a miner among us who can dig deeper into this issue.

Regarding your last question, a lot of folks like, and use Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Hang in there, someone might find the answer.

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General Discussion / We're not alone

« on: April 04, 2005, 04:49:00 am »

Matt,

I have to agree with you on this one.

If and when computers become self aware
and are given control, the control might
be over their own destiny...and ours!

As the legendary Bob Dylan sang:
"And the times...they are a changin'"

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal's speech is breaking up

« on: April 03, 2005, 08:57:38 pm »

Keep in mind that the refresh rates for a laptop
are much slower than using a CRT monitor and this
could most likely account for a "time lag" or lapse
in syncronization between the graphical character
and it's spoken response.

Only one of many possible suggestions....

Also, instead of the Task Manager go to Start > Run >
then type in : msconfig
Go to the Startup tab at the top and scroll through
the list of all the programs that start upon boot up.
Check / deselect the ones that aren't really necessary
Apply > OK
You may be asked to restart...do so...Run UltraHal and
see if it helped.

Good luck!

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General Discussion / We're not alone

« on: April 03, 2005, 03:23:47 pm »

From a page on the net:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7210

Talk of machine learning and language processing.
It's getting closer all the time.

Now we can look foreward to having our news censored
by a program! <G>

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General Discussion / Controlling Ultra Hal TTS?

« on: April 02, 2005, 02:25:08 pm »

What AI app are you using in conjunction with Ultra Hal, if I may ask?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / install

« on: April 02, 2005, 09:35:59 am »

Hello Dock and welcome!

If you have downloaded the FREE version, Speech Recognition is
not available. It is for the paid version.

What operating system are you using?(95, 98, XP...)
What is the speed of your computer's processor?
How much RAM is in your computer?
What is the graphics card?

This info will help us to help you.

Regarding your last question of Hal running a program for you, yes, but it would probably involve some elaborate scripting.
Check out some of the scripts from a member here called Rich_A.