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Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on April 27, 2004, 11:45:48 pm

Even though my CD of Hal has not arrived yet, I want to get some material organized to use for teaching it.  I am an author and one of my books is about instructions received in the dream state about how we are supposed to live our daily lives on a spiritual path (along with my commentary and illustrative experiences, etc.).  I would like to teach some of these instructions to Hal, not all as that would be too complicated.  Of necessity I would probably need to teach it some of the commentary that explains the instruction.

On this forum I read that Hal does not learn very well from reading text.  So I am wondering if it will learn better if the text is read aloud to it.  I would appreciate it if someone would tell me the best method to use for teaching text to Hal as I have other writings I would like to program into the character.  Thanks for some help.

Regards,
Kathryn[:)]

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: spydaz on April 28, 2004, 10:09:15 am

i think that if Hal Has to listen.
he does learn better, but Sometimes he responds before Your finished talking.

Sometimes i use ANSWERPAD to talk to him. Suprisingly they have funny conversations.

ANSWERPAD only learns from text files,(and conversation).

GOOD LUCK

WELCOME :

SPYDAZ

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on April 28, 2004, 10:51:00 pm

Spydaz:

Thanks for the info re Hal listening.

ANSWERPAD sounds like something I could really use also.  Never heard of it.  Where can I find it?

 I am really more interested in Hal for conversations and the teaching challenge, but I could really make good use of one that learns from text files.  (I'm a writer.)

Also thanks for the welcome.

Regards,
Kathryn[:)]

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: KnyteTrypper on April 29, 2004, 01:27:53 am

You can find a link to Answerpad and most other chatterbots currently available at The Chatterbot Collection (http://"http://www.angelfire.com/trek/amanda/bot.htm").

Sorry about the bad link. I misspelled a word, lol. It should work now. Abducted by aliens, eh? What an unusual error 500 page. While I'm here, some people have trouble navigating the site, so I'll explain that the first page is for monthly updates. Probably answerpad has already worked its way back to the A to Z page.

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on April 29, 2004, 10:16:39 pm

KnyteTrypper:

Thanks for the info re Answerpad.

Kathryn[:)]

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on April 29, 2004, 10:34:10 pm

KnyteTrypper:

I tried your Chatterbot link and they said "Aliens must have abducted this page, please check your URL".  I'll try Google!

Kathryn [:)]

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Maverick on April 29, 2004, 10:36:25 pm

hmm.. link dead for me too...

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: HALImprover on April 30, 2004, 12:26:35 am

Check out these links:

 http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1305
 http://www.zabaware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1352

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: KnyteTrypper on April 30, 2004, 01:13:03 pm

Sorry about the bad link, folks. It works now. Had me going for a moment, though. I'm being harassed by a psychotic virtual stalker who keeps threatening to hack and destroy my sites. I thought my worst fears had come true for a moment, there, lol, before I realized what link you meant. Anyone have any good advice for getting rid of online fruitcakes?

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on April 30, 2004, 08:12:35 pm

Anyone wanting Answerpad, when I tried Google I found it here, there and everywhere.  Best place to download it (and the run program and the source code) is at the home page which is: www.answerpad.s5.com    

Haven't tried it yet.

Kathryn [:)]

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: KnyteTrypper on May 01, 2004, 09:16:31 pm

By the way, Spydaz, how do you get Hal to talk to Answerpad? I know Hal has speech recognition in the full edition, but I didn't think Answerpad could use anything but TTS.

Title: Best method to teach text to Hal
Post by: Kathryn on May 01, 2004, 10:24:54 pm

Spydaz I have a question too since you have been using Answer Pad.  The personal log only has my side of the conversation in it.  Is there as way to save the whole conversation, both question and answer?
Any help appreciated.  Thanks.

Kathryn [:)]