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Zabaware Forums => Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor => Topic started by: tony.steward on October 14, 2006, 08:21:27 pm

Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: tony.steward on October 14, 2006, 08:21:27 pm
Is it possible to mute hal. I like to listen to my music whilst typing conversations with hal. Besides the voices I have are pretty ordinary.

Thanks heaps.
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Art on October 14, 2006, 10:30:34 pm
From the Options Menu, select Speech.
Uncheck the box Use Speech Synthesis
(Hal Speaks).

Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: tony.steward on October 14, 2006, 10:56:41 pm
That was too obvious.
Sorry

Thanks
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: tony.steward on October 15, 2006, 01:40:41 am
Guess what!
I unchecked that box & hal still talks.
I really want to shut him up.
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Bill819 on October 15, 2006, 12:22:16 pm
quote:
Originally posted by tony.steward

Guess what!
I unchecked that box & hal still talks.
I really want to shut him up.


Find your system Speaker. It is usually a small speaker icon. Just click it and click the mute button. This will disable your pc's speaker output.
Bill
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Art on October 15, 2006, 01:32:20 pm
Bill,

I may be wrong but I thought he wanted to mute HAL while being able to play CD's or music from his hard drive.
??
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Bill819 on October 15, 2006, 11:08:14 pm
Oops, big time. The only other thing that I can suggest is to turn off Hal when you listen to music. Have Hal start up just like any other program and exit it when you want to listen to music. Only takes a click or two.
Bill
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: tony.steward on October 16, 2006, 03:53:47 am
This seems to me to be a bit of an oversite and perhaps it is a feature for a future edition. I wanted to chat with HAL in text mode & listen to music. But alas it seems to be not possible.

Thanks People

Tony
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Duskrider on October 16, 2006, 09:00:52 am

An idea might be "Microsoft Female Whisper"
If you might switch Hal to whisper, you won't hear him with music playing.   [;)]
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Art on October 16, 2006, 04:20:52 pm
Actually I think the Uncheck Speech Synthesis box
is the correct way to do it. Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem to work correctly as Tony already mentioned.

How about it Robert? Any ideas?
Title: Mute Hal?
Post by: Bill DeWitt on October 23, 2006, 08:53:30 pm
I noticed the same thing. Was a fix ever suggested?

quote:
Originally posted by Art

Actually I think the Uncheck Speech Synthesis box
is the correct way to do it. Unfortunately, it doesn't
seem to work correctly as Tony already mentioned.

How about it Robert? Any ideas?