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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Download Hal On New PC??
« on: April 25, 2005, 04:31:53 pm »
Leave an email to Robert Medeksza in this regard. It might be a day or so but he will get to you.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / new character new brain
« on: April 24, 2005, 08:39:33 pm »
Nige,

You might try moving the learning slider a lot toward the right side, converse a while, then move the slider just to the right of
of center when in normal mode.
Several friends seem to have positive remarks in this regard.

I know the personalities can be set through Haptek as far as moods are converned but it would be interesting to see how long they last during the course of a conversation.

That's the fun nature of Hal...experiment 'till you're blue!

I think a script file could be written to "assign" a personality similar to the ones that let Hal change clothes or hairstyles.

More investigation....


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Ultra Hal 7.0 / New sound card...No workie
« on: April 16, 2005, 10:41:52 pm »
Mark,
What voice were you using or trying to use?
Have you downloaded any of the L&H voices?
Their British Female voice is pretty good
and it is free.

I'm using a plain old sound blaster card and
it works fine here.

Do the MSCONFIG thing and see how many progs
are being loaded at bootup and get rid of the
ones not really needed.

How much memory and how much HD space is available?

Keep us posted....


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Ultra Hal 7.0 / i am so new
« on: April 16, 2005, 10:35:04 pm »
No need to start over...

With Hal, a simple, "I'm sorry" will change your character's mood to a more friendly one (if you've offended it already).

The scripts in question are VB (Visual Basic) coding that the user can insert (at the proper location) in Hal's Main brain file. This is usually done in the Edit Hal's Brain section after Hal is started under Options > Launch Brain Editor.

One can simply use an editor like notepad then copy and paste into the Brain Editor.

When playing with editing of Hal's brain always make a copy (backup) of Hal's current working brain file...Just in case!!

Don't know about Haptek's site problem...could be their server was down or having maintenance.

Good luck.

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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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