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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Error 2355 when installing.What is it &how to fix?
« on: January 09, 2002, 01:51:07 am »
I've looked through a different document on Microsoft's site explaining what to do if Office 2000 gives this error. I've found a few more suggestions that might be of some relevance in Windows 98. First if you have any antivirus software, try temporarily disabling it during the installation. If that doesn't work try installing the latest version of Internet Explorer. If that doesn't work go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download all critical and recommended updates, which you probably should do anyway if you haven't already.


Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Error 2355 when installing.What is it &how to fix?
« on: January 07, 2002, 11:45:12 pm »
This is a problem with the Microsoft Windows installer service. Please go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q296742 for more information regarding this problem. Basically you need to load some updates to your version of Windows.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal at start-up
« on: January 07, 2002, 11:42:17 pm »
If you are running Windows 98, most likely this problem is due to the way this version of Windows performs a shutdown operation. It force closes the program instead of properly shutting it down. This is a "feature" turned on by Windows 98 in order to speed up shutdown. All other versions of windows have this function turned off by default. If you are running Windows 98, instructions on how to turn off this feature can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q187607

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / windows xp, and hal.
« on: January 07, 2002, 11:36:14 pm »
Hal has been tested to run under Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP. However under 2000 and XP if the installation program asks whether to overwrite an existing file with an older version of that file be sure to say "No"

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / win xp HAL IS SILENT
« on: January 07, 2002, 11:34:28 pm »
When installing Hal under Windows 2000 and XP the installation program might ask you if you want to overwrite a newer file with an older version of that same file. Always be sure to say "No"

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / New characters
« on: January 07, 2002, 11:33:04 pm »
The easiest thing to do would be to open an existing UHP file in Notepad and modify it for a different character. For example you could open the genie.uhp file I mentioned above and modify the Object= line to point to a different installed character. Also modify the Name= to give the character a different name and modify the Preview= and Startup= to give it a different preview image.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / New characters
« on: December 12, 2001, 09:38:03 pm »
Ultra Hal Assistant will accept either its own proprietary character plugin which is an an OCX file, or it is able to accept any MSAgent character if you make a small UHP text file telling its object name. Also you need to make a JPG of an intro screen for the character and a preview image. Its actually quite simple. The best way to see how this works is to look at how Ultra Hal Assistant loads the current MSAgent characters. Lets take the Microsoft genie character as an example. Open the file "C:/Program Files/Zabaware/Ultra Hal Assistant 4/genie.uhp" It will look like this:

[Ultra Hal Assistant 2.0 Plugin]
[DO NOT MODIFY]
Type=Face
Name=Genie MSAgent Character
Speech=True
AgentChar=True
Startup=genistrt.jpg
Preview=geniprvw.jpg
Object=Genie
BGColor=048048048

You can have Hal use any MSAgent character simply by making a file like this one. Just figure out the object name of your ACS file and set the Object= line appropiately. Also change the name line to whatever the name of the charater is. Make 2 jpeg files with a startup screen featuring the character and a preview of that character and reference the files in the Startup= and Preview= lines. The jpg files should be located in the "Characters" subfolder.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Error, hal won't run
« on: December 04, 2001, 06:19:31 pm »
It seems the Microsoft MSAgent components are having trouble installing on your computer for whatever reason. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads.htm and download and install the core MSAgent file as well as the american english voice.

Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Forum back online
« on: September 22, 2001, 02:08:22 pm »
This forum was shut down for the past 4 days while we were removing the Nimda virus (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7225343-0.html?tag=tp_pr) from our server. We appologize for any inconvenience.



Robert Medeksza

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Teaching Hal
« on: September 16, 2001, 11:43:51 pm »
The new Ultra Hal 4.0 brain learns a lot different then the previous 3.0 brain. It places a much lower priority on learned information. I would reccomend trying to use the 3.0 brain plugin if you are going to use the learn from text file feature, as it places a higher priority on this type of learned information, and will produce better results.

Originally the learn from text file feature was not included in version 4.0 because of its poor performance with the 4.0 brain. We included it in the last update because it was a highly requested feature. We will periodically post updated versions of Hal brain on our plugin page (no updates yet). The next update will include better support for the learn from text file feature. Brain updates will be very small (less then 500KB), since they are simply small VBScript files.


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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skins
« on: September 16, 2001, 11:35:17 pm »
The new Ultra Hal 4.0 contains all the Hal skins that currently exist. Is anyone interested in creating new skins?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Every new version seems worse
« on: September 16, 2001, 11:34:13 pm »
I'm sorry you feel this way. We spend thousands of hours on each version trying to make it better. We include the latest in speech recognition technology with every new version. Every new version is more complex then the previous and requires more of your computers resources, and therefore more powerful computers.

Could you be more specific in what areas of Hal do you think are worse? Maybe include error messages, conversation logs, or step-by-step instructions on how to recreate the error you are having. I would be glad to help you try to solve these problems or to know what to change in the next version.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal doesn't open programs...or chat very well.
« on: September 16, 2001, 11:22:24 pm »
Well I really don't know how to respond to this. If you could be more specific then simply saying it doesn't work I would be in a better position to offer you some help. For most people Hal does open programs, Hal does chat, and Hal does learn. What kind of errors are you getting? Maybe include a conversation log?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help
« on: September 16, 2001, 11:15:10 pm »
The Ultra Hal AIM bot uses America Online TOC server to communicate. The TOC server was created by AOL so that third party programs can connect to its network. However the TOC server is notorious for being unreliable. The actual AIM client logs on to a server called oscar. We plan on updating the Hal Aim Bot to use this servr instead in the future.

quote:

Can someone tell me why the Ultra Hal AIM Bot sometime work and sometime don't?


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Ultra Hal 7.0 / trouble with piece of craft SR- canyon halp?
« on: September 08, 2001, 11:30:23 am »
I looked up to see what error "RC80040206" and this is what I found in the documentation:
quote:
A speech recognition session object was unable to open a session with the speech recognition engine. Obtain the engine return code and return code description using GetSessionRC and GetSessionRCDescription. Refer to speech recognition engine documentation.

Well this error description isn't any help at all. Hal isn't programmed to read the SessionRC code from the L&H engine so we can't figure out what the real error is. I will have one of our programmers install L&H Voice Express and try to get it to work with Ultra Hal Assistant 3.0 and then we'll try to recreate this error. I'll write back when we have the results.

SAPI 5.1 is a large improvement over SAPI 4.0. If I'm not mistaking, I think Microsoft actually licenced some of L&H's speech technology to create their speech recognition engine.

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