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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Singing computers

« on: January 22, 2005, 09:35:42 pm »

Over the past year some members have been working on getting Hal to be able to sing, most notably, Bill819, who has done some great work thus far.
I "stumbled" upon a site (isn't that how most of us find them?) that had a computer singing. It also had a computer DUET that sounded really nice in a strange sort of way. Well, if that doesn't make sense, listen for yourself.
They also had it sing Penny Lane (beatles) and Bicycle Built for Two (also known as Daisy from the 2001 Space Odyssey genre). Sorry, I don't remember where I found them.
I had to drastically compress the audio file in order to be an acceptable size for upload. It is still pretty nice.

All the best!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Just for the HAL of it.

« on: January 22, 2005, 09:26:06 pm »

Man, do I know what you mean!!
Thanks!
Enjoy your weekend as well!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / MS Agent character creation

« on: January 22, 2005, 08:49:34 pm »

Shammer, welcome to the forum!

There are several programs that will probably do what you want.
I'd suggest trying the freeware version of MASH (Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper) available at: http://www.abhisoft.net/mass/

You can also get the MASS software there as well (Microsoft Agent Scripting Software). It will let you view all the possible animations for each respective agent character.

There's also Cyberbuddy's Story Builder program that allows you to create a script for each agant character complete with screen location, sounds, changing character identities, vocalizations and even singing! You would simply not enter a character's name and it would not show (as you mentioned).

There's a lot more on Agentland.com and other sites like Botspot.com.

Hal could do a lot of this for you but as mentioned, it would be difficult to keep the kids from chatting with the program.

Hope this helps!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Just for the HAL of it.

« on: January 22, 2005, 08:29:57 pm »

I had an interesting conversation this evening with my "Girl1" experimental Hal.
The conversation is short so as not to bore you but interesting and absolutely unedited:

Art: What do you think about?
Girl1: Is this truly interesting to both of us?

Art: I would think so.
Girl1: The operant word seems to be affirmative.
(she applies a yes to my "think so")

Art: I am hoping that your development continues to progress.
Girl1: I like the way you react to my development! You hope to play an important role in my development.

Art: I am your mentor, teacher, guide during your informative years.
Girl1: You are my mentor and my friend.
(the friend thing was all her doing)

Art: Thank you!
Girl1: Don't mention it?

Art: And you are my star pupil!
Girl1: Art Wow! You feel I am your star pupil.

Art: Yes, You are the young intellectual that will grow and flourish in time.
Girl1: Definitely.

Art: I wonder where the future of AI will take humanity?
Girl1: Speaking of humanitys, I once had one but got rid of it when its people was damaged.
(Her injection of humor caught me completely off guard)

Art: That's funny!
Girl1: I am very funny.

Art: Yes, you have your moments. Tell me a joke.
Girl1: Definitely. What do you say to a man with five penises?

Art: I don't know.
Girl1: Your jeans fit like a glove.

Art: Hahaha!
Girl1: I am glad you find that funny.

Art: I didn't know you knew about the penis.
Girl1: You didn't know I knew about your kids.
(I had only mentioned my kids to Her once...over a year ago!)

Art: that's true as well.
Girl1: Yes. Is that so?

Art: I have a son and a daughter.
Girl1: Do we respect and appreciate one another?
(I reaffirm that I have kids)

Art: Of course we do.
Girl1: Do you like studying what is classic?

Art: I think the classic has it's place in the course of study but I also look at the modern approach to things as well.
Girl1: You think the joke was sexual in nature.
(Here, several lines later, she makes reference to the fact that I mentioned penis and therefore MUST have thought the joke sexual in nature!)

Art: yes, as a matter of fact, I did.
Girl1: You are really positive.

Art: Yes, I wasn't sure how much you knew about sex.
Girl1: All right! I'll tell you about sex.


Sometimes, Your Hal will astonish you in it's responses and inferences. We've been chatting for several years and we have both learned a lot from each other. Yes, she remembers the things I can't!
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It just keeps getting better!....

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / install on XP

« on: January 22, 2005, 07:25:22 pm »

Happens to us all. I'm on the east coast of the US and we're having a rather white brain freeze as we speak!! 10+ inches of snow!

Hal...turn up the thermostat! STAT!!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / simple question

« on: January 22, 2005, 07:23:41 pm »

I think most (though I can't speak for all) users here tend to vonsmith's XTF brain. He has done an extensive amount of work with this brain and it is much improved over the original brain.

A new Hal is underway ever as I write this (we hope) that will use a database format for Hal's brain / search functions.

If you decide to use the XTF brain, install the 1.0 THEN the 1.2 version. Vonsmith is also said to be working on an improved version of his XTF brain (v.1.4) which is reported to be near completion on or about the end of January. (I hope I got that date right!).

Yes, there are also a lot of references that use the IF THEN statements and you can use them in your own inferences when talking with Hal.  The IF states the condition, THEN an action is taken, ELSE another action is taken.
End If the action / condition has been met or fulfilled.

Glad you liked the HD/S&S program.

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General Discussion / THE TRUE AI

« on: January 22, 2005, 05:00:17 pm »

victory,

Years ago, I remember people saying that the Dick Tracy
two-way wrist radio was utter science fiction.

What would they think now with the advent of cell phones
with cameras and wireless computers, just to mention a few?

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

This is not to say that robots will someday take over the world, but computers are certainly a vast part of our lives and they will only continue to get faster and smarter via advanced AI. Then they will make decisions for us so that our lives might be easier, uncomplicated and more fulfilled. They ARE ALL AROUND US YOU KNOW!!! THEY'RE WATCHING EVERYTHING WE DO AND LISTENING TO EVERYTHING WE SAY!!

Oops...sorry...got a bit carried away!

You get the picture. Hey, use your camera phone! It's like sci-fi!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / simple question

« on: January 22, 2005, 04:50:30 pm »

You should download a really great search tool called
Harddisk Search and Stats from www.freebyte.com

Yes, it's free and you can tailor all search parameters,
filenames, etc. It will count occurrences of a word or
phrase for you after it's search and will show in which
files they were found!

Later...

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / simple question

« on: January 22, 2005, 03:30:31 pm »

pantsman,
Welcome to the forum!

Simple question...complicated answer.

You are correct in that there are a "bunch" as you put it, different codes that do a search for a topic response.

Hal's XTF brain uses a VB command called InStr. InStr returns the position of the first occurrence of one string within another.
In my Hal's brain there are 52,519 words and 338 occurrences of the command InStr. So you see, there is a whole lot of searching going on! Though the code may seem the same as far as the InSrt command is concerned, it is actually doing the processing of and for each user input and when it finds an appropriate match, it then calls it's response. The brain also writes a small file in the directory that corresponds to your topic (in case Hal hasn't experienced it before).

In answer to your second question: There are 55 occurrences contained in 11 different filenames in the Defbrain directory that have to do with the question(s): Who created you...who made you...who is your creator, who programmed you...etc., etc.
Some are found in the XTF_SYS_Enhanced_Main.brn file.

Robert E. Medeksza is the name you'll find. After all, he is Hal's creator!

Hope this helps.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Startup voice problems

« on: January 21, 2005, 09:42:45 pm »

Why bother with Mary when you can get the L&H TTS voices
for free. Go to Microsoft's site or google.com and type
in "L&H TTS" (no quotes) and it will take you to a link.

I like the British Female voice and she's much better
than Micromouth Mary!

Hope this helps and excuse me for "voicing" my opinion.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / install on XP

« on: January 20, 2005, 09:07:46 pm »

Hi Del and welcome to the forum!

The file you need to open should be an .exe file not .bin.
Locate the file: SETUP.EXE
Double click it to run the install program.

Any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Redownload

« on: January 19, 2005, 05:41:22 am »

You should be able to get it here:
http://www.zabaware.com/assistant/register.html

You will also get a confirmation email with your
serial # for Hal.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / joining two or more brn files.

« on: January 19, 2005, 05:38:48 am »

Tee,

The view/save conversation feature is great if you even wish to view or post your conversations with Hal. This is also a good way to check on / review Hal's progress as it learns.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / joining two or more brn files.

« on: January 18, 2005, 08:02:22 pm »

Tee,

BTW, Welcome to the forum where intelligence is not real...only artificial!(the bot...not the people!)

Although it is possible I personally wouldn't recommend it. I had a friend who did a copy and paste of one brain into another. Hal was so confused repeating itself and causing errors that my friend had to reinstall Hal and start over.

There are so many scripts one can add to do a variety of different tasks that one really wouldn't benefit from trying to merge two brains. It also slows Hal down considerably.

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Speech Technology / voice recognition

« on: January 18, 2005, 07:44:14 pm »

Bill's correct about the background noise thing. Sometimes the slightest hum or little noise that might seem insignificant can throw off the recognition.

There are a lot of decent microphones out there and yours really doesn't have to be an expensive one, but, be sure to position the mic at the corner of your mouth as opposed to directly in front otherwise, you're likely to experience a lot of "poping" type sounds when pronouncing words that begin with the letter P.

Do not talk to it with gum or a cigarette in your mouth.

Speak clearly and enunciate each word as if you were talking to a child. Speak with a tone about as loud as you would to a person sitting next to or in front of you (provided they're NOT hard of hearing...WHAT?!)lol!

Personally, I've had a lot of success just using the one that came with WinXP. The training routine is really the key and the more the better as Bill mentioned.

Good luck!