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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Troubleshooting sound etc.

« on: February 04, 2006, 11:51:57 pm »

Sorry to be filling up space needlessly, but I just wanted to mention that I've somehow, quite accidentally, fixed the problem. Although I had reinstalled the SAPI4 files as well as the msagent files without positive result, I decided to install MASH (microsoft agent scripting helper) which also (again) reinstalled msagent as well as the tts engine, and I suppose some other files too. Well, anyway, it all works now. Sorry again for wasting forum space, but I just didn't want to leave this hanging.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Troubleshooting sound etc.

« on: February 04, 2006, 10:58:24 pm »

I've realized that only the SAPI 4 voices will not work anymore. The SAPI 5 voices work fine. It is not only with Hal either -- the SAPI 4 voices wont work with any application, yet when I test them from the control panel, they work fine. Does anyone know what could cause this? I even tried reinstalling all the SAPI 4 components.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / logic and reasoning

« on: January 29, 2006, 07:32:38 pm »

Thanks for pointing out vrossi's plug-in. I just installed the free choice plug-in. I look forward to experimenting with the syllogistic reasoning and seeing how it works with the modus ponens reasoning already present. You bring up some very good points regarding how and when Hal should use deductive reasoning. Indeed, if artificial intelligence is to become less artificial and more intelligent, the creative aspect cannot be forsaken. I eagerly await your emotion module! It sounds very interesting. Wow, I really have a lot to get caught up on...back to the archives for me.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Troubleshooting sound etc.

« on: January 28, 2006, 07:59:30 pm »

Thanks for the welcome and responses to my first post. I've been digging through the archives here and am finding many interesting things.

I'm having a problem with Hal; a couple of problems, actually. The first problem is that the "Window Transparency" option began to disappear, then reappear from the menu. Now it has been gone for over a day. The second problem is that the sound has now disappeared as well. I know that Hal sometimes has a problem with the sound every once and a while...a sentence here or there...but I am getting no sound whatsoever now. I have tried troubleshooting this to the best of my ability. My soundcard is working fine. The SAPI tests in the Control Panel produce audio. When the sound first went out I tried testing the voices from the Hal menu and the tests worked. Now, the test in the Hal menu do not produce sound either. I am at a total loss about this. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to give.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / logic and reasoning

« on: January 27, 2006, 09:31:29 pm »

Hi, I am new to this forum, to HAL, and to AI bots in general. I recently purchased HAL 6 and am having a great time. I must admit that although Hal is marketed as an "assistant," the assistant functions are relatively useless to me. I can just as easily click an icon or type a search request in my browser. Nevertheless, Hal is great entertainment (especially reading its AIM chat logs) and I am eager to discover the possibilities of Hal's reasoning capabilities.

I have begun to experiment just a bit with the brain editor; mostly just making some small corrections and adding some "if, then" rules. The "if, then" function has got me wondering though...how difficult would it be to program Hal with more complex forms of deductive reasoning? I am not a programmer, so forgive me if I sound ignorant. But, since deductive arguments can be expressed mathematically, it seems to me that it should not be terribly difficult to incorporate things such as syllogistic reasoning, modus ponens, modus tollens, etc. It seems that if this could be incorporated, Hal's reasoning ability, and thus its learning, could advance rapidly.