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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Lip Sync?

« on: September 09, 2003, 01:13:34 am »

I am not sure I understand your question.  Yes I have two monitors on my computer but I have a Matrox video card which was built for two monitors. I have another computer here in my office that has two video cards that I installed.  The set up is the same on both of them as both have the Win XP Pro OS.
Right Click anywhere on your DT
in the small menu that comes up go to PROPERTIES
Choose the SETTINGS tab
There you will see your monitors. Click on the one that is greyed out and check the box that says EXTEND my windows desktop onto this monitor.
Now for the part of your question I do not understand......"However I just would like to know how I can get my faces on several monitors at the same time. "  
I do not have the program, Hal, running more than one time on my computer and I doubt that would be possible as there would be some definate conflicts with that.  I can drag the Character window from one monitor to the other with my mouse like anything else, but there is only one "face" on my computer.  If you have chosen one of the "detatchable" characters then possibly you could have the character on one monitor and its character box on the other ..I have not tried the detachables yet.
In re: to the lip sync, I have two 120gig HDs on this machine with the primary partitioned and the OS and programs  on C:, my documents and current work on E: and the the entire 120gig of D: I use for storage. I also have 1gig of RAM and a new AMD processor. The system is defraged once a week so I don't think this is the problem.  Any other suggestions?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Lip Sync?

« on: September 08, 2003, 09:14:07 pm »

Is there no lip sync with the new characters? They are so realistic looking it is a shame they just blink and move their heads.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / AT&T Natural Voices

« on: September 08, 2003, 08:51:47 pm »

Yes I have those also but still prefer the AT&T voices. []  Mike and Crystal of the AT&T voices seem to me to be the most realistic.  All just a matter of preferance.[)]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / AT&T Natural Voices

« on: September 08, 2003, 08:19:51 pm »

I bought 4.5 but had trouble with the program using the AT&T Natural voices, and Dragon Speaking Naturally so I uninstalled it.  I downloaded the new version thinking maybe it would work better. So far so good!  My OS is WinXP Pro and I have a AMD 2. processor with 1gig of ram.  I also have a matrox video card with dual monitors.  The program seems to operate fine even when I drag it to the other monitor. I did find some issues with the daily planner though.  If you type " Meeting at Viktor's" it will tell you invaild time, no matter What time you put in.....but if you type " Meeting at Viktors" it seems to work.  Also there were a few times that I put in a date and time in the AM and it did not show up on the calendar.....so I put it in again....still nothing, so I changed the time to PM and it took it!  When I closed the program and opened it again, it read out the two missing meetings as well as the one with the PM time.  I think I will stick with my "Talking Reminder" for my appointments till the bugs are worked out of this one.  Maybe you guys could look at that program and get some ideas from it. http://www.softwareriver.com/  It works GREAT but unfortunately it is only a calendar and has not the functions of Speach Recognition that Hal has. I am very impressed with the new characters. Though why the female characters are so nice in comparison to the male is beyond me.  I chose Mike as he was the most realistic but he really is not very nice looking! Still he impresses everyone that comes into my office, especially when he talks and opens programs on command.  I think they  should redo Sam in his suit to be as realistic as Mike!  BTW here is the url of the AT&T Voices which beat the heck out of MS's! http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/