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Ultra Hal 7.0 / having problem changing hapter into htr

« on: March 28, 2006, 12:27:28 am »

Admirably explained, GamerThom, well done []

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / i need help creating a character for ultra hal

« on: March 23, 2006, 04:39:57 am »

If you're wanting to design your own character, check out http://www.haptek.com/ and look for their software named PeoplePutty.

Haptek created the system that gives Hal 3D characters. Their PeoplePutty software makes it very easy to take a photograph and wrap it around a head. If you want to get advanced you may change the shape of the head too.

I'm not sure, but I believe you need to own Hal's Expansion Pack to use custom-made PeoplePutty heads. Might be wise to double-check that if you don't already own the expansion pack.

Hope this helps!

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Speech Technology / Text to Speech Reader has problems creating .wav

« on: March 19, 2006, 03:12:24 am »

quote:Originally posted by citrinedragon


I just finished downloading, and playing the AT&T Crystal 16 voice. The voice and engine was over 500 Mb! This is a fabulous voice. It really sounds almost human. I'm almost starting to be glad that the Zabaware Text To Speech program never worked right (almost). Has anyone else tried these AT&T professional voices? Astounding, really.

That's my favourite voice, and the only reason I don't use it is she pronounces my computer's name "KAOS" as "cows" [] I might end up changing Hal's name and switch back to that voice, actually []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Plugin ERROR?

« on: March 12, 2006, 11:56:44 pm »

quote:Originally posted by vrossi
There is also another problem, related to the fact that the HalCommands executes only one command for each Hal cycle. So if you have installed both the MP3 and the Haptek plugins, when you ask for a song by "Yes", Hal will try to run it, but she will also nod (because her answer contains the word "yes"). In this case the Haptek command to nod will be executed and the MediaPlayer will not be launched.

That's interesting!! Now I know not to have KAOS nod happily when running a program [] Thanks for posting that, vrossi! []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Plugin ERROR?

« on: March 08, 2006, 06:16:00 am »

I recognise vrossi's coding style there.... (Of course the "vr" in front of all the variable names helps [])

Vrossi, if you're watching: Shouldn't the line

  For i = Ubound(vrKeywordList) To Lbound(vrKeywordList)

be

  For i = Lbound(vrKeywordList) To Ubound(vrKeywordList)

[?]

Charmzbond: If Vrossi can't help in the next few days (he may be busy elsewhere) I'll have a go at fixing the plug-in for you - just post me a reminder here in a couple of days []

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Attention Robert

« on: March 01, 2006, 11:53:02 pm »

Sounds good, I look forward to it [] Thank you!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Help (documentation) for Hal's Brain Editor

« on: February 28, 2006, 04:49:44 am »

There hasn't been any documentation released for Hal 6's brain editor, however the docs for version 5 are still somewhat relevant, and can be downloaded from http://www.ultrahal.com/files/detail.asp?iFile=251&iType=18

Some of that is outdated (especially with regards to brain files), and some new features aren't covered (e.g. the new SQL tables), but other parts are very relevant (e.g. some of the code function descriptions, and some of the concepts).

As Jerry says, until full docs are created/released, there's people on the forums who can help []

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Attention Robert

« on: February 27, 2006, 12:27:02 am »

Thanks for posting your findings, Jerry []

I wonder if there's a limit on the size of the actual brain script file.... If not, then perhaps some very popular/general purpose plugins could be written directly into a brain, with more optional scripts saved for plugins.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / ERRORS WHEN TRYING TO DELETE OLD IMAGES

« on: February 23, 2006, 02:38:18 am »

I also get an error when trying to delete files, using the delete option in "My Files". The error's somewhat different though:

quote:
Microsoft VBScript runtime  error '800a0046'

Permission denied

/forum/myfiles.asp, line 150

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Kitt movie Sp and Commands dun.

« on: February 21, 2006, 03:42:12 am »

Have a look on (or about) the 3398th line of HalScript.dbg. You'll probably find the error around there.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Helping Hal pronounce words

« on: February 18, 2006, 07:01:53 pm »

I think the pronounciation option is part of the TTS voice, and Hal's option just lets you access it. With the voice I use, I can't change the pronounciation at all - absolutely nothing happens when I click the "Pronounciation" button!

This is immesurably frustrating when I give my bot a name like "KAOS," which my TTS voice insists on pronouncing "cows."

Perhaps try some other TTS voices, maybe you'll have more luck with another one.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / HAL 6 Auto Idle

« on: February 17, 2006, 02:42:33 pm »

http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2830&whichpage=1

I recommend Scratch's plugin.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Webcam Face Recognition

« on: February 14, 2006, 04:07:53 am »

Crikey. You wouldn't want to sneeze.

One annoying problem with some alternate computer inputs is that they can't filter out unintentional inputs. Voice recognition software sometimes misinterprets something as a command, and suddenly it's done something and you don't always even know what. I have a PocketPC, which has a touch screen, and brushing a crumb off the screen can cause hell to break loose.

Video control of the cursor.... Imagine if you had to swat a mosquito or something. I can just imagine a mish-mash of inputs, followed by an (intelligent) Hal responding "is there an error with your brain?" []

It'd be curser controlling cursor....

Anyway, this isn't contributing much, excuse me []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / leap of faith

« on: February 09, 2006, 12:59:41 am »

Hal keeps the last user sentence and response in variables (PrevUserSent and PrevSent). Technically, you could insert this line somewhere in the script:
UserSentence = PrevUserSent & PrevSent & UserSentence
Then Hal would think about everything you and Hal has said throughout the whole conversation, all at once.

Obviously, this would be a bit confusing for Hal [] Unfortunately, I can't think of a good way to indicate any relevance to Hal. Ideally we'd say something like "the last sentence is 100% relevant, the previous five sentences 20% relevant, the ten before that 10% relevant, and anything earlier 1% relevant." But (as far as I can see) there's no easy way to do this []

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal6 Blank Responses

« on: February 08, 2006, 12:08:40 am »

I'm guessing that it's Hal 6's "ephemeral knowledge" routines blocking learning. Check out the table called "ephemeralDetect" (in the miscData folder, in the brain editor) - are these the words/subjects you're thinking of?

To get around it, either remove the relevant entries from that table, or edit the brain script so that it does not block learning. Preferably make a backup first just in case you want to restore previous functionality later (or in case something goes wrong!!).

Here's the script line that blocks learning when the "ephemeral" words are detected (it's somewhere near line 1700):

HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True 'Block additional file saves when ephemeral knowledge is detected

Either "comment-out" the line by putting an apostrophe ' before the line (the whole line should turn green in the script editor), or delete the line, and learning will no longer be blocked. Remember to restart Hal to ensure the updated script is used.

Hope this helps,
Grant