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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Not all voices are showing in list.

« on: January 18, 2003, 01:11:01 am »

This morning, I installed the full version of Hal.  I have noticed that, of the voices, only 13 are showing in the list when I am picking one.  The voices with an English accent are listed, as well as 2 American females, Microsoft Sam, and several American males.  I know that the robotic and whispering voices are not showing. I am not sure which others are missing.

Even with the small troubles I've had with this program, I have a blast with it.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Having Hal open a program

« on: January 17, 2003, 05:28:25 am »

Well, it looks like that was a step in the right direction.  Now, when I ask him to open a program that used to give me the error message, the help file for the program opens.  The program still doesn't open, but I get something other than an error message.

(One other thing that I've noticed is that, when Hal does open a program for me, he says: I will now run "".  He doesn't put anything between the quotes.)

Edited by - hugsetc on 01/17/2003  05:55:16

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Having Hal open a program

« on: January 16, 2003, 10:40:46 pm »

I was trying opening some programs again, to see if I could find any more that work.  I found a couple, and I noticed something about the ones that don't open. For the ones that he tries to open, and gets the error, the file it isn't finding is always: APIGID32.dll

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Having Hal open a program

« on: January 16, 2003, 04:32:50 am »

Hello, Robert.

I think I understand why Hal would be confused about my e-mail.  Eudora is the default mail program, but I have it installed in a few different directories to make my e-mail addresses more managable.  Since he uses a mailto: link, it will be easy to make it work the way I'd like it to.

Yes, this account has administrator privleges.  I have found one program so far that he can open.  That is Paint Shop Pro 7.  If I ask him to "open PSP" it works, which is very nice.  Do you have an idea of how I could teach him to open the others?

Heather

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Teaching Hal

« on: January 15, 2003, 02:39:32 am »

Thank you so much for your help!  I hadn't thought, before, about the other meanings for the word "nugget".  To me, "Nugget" is simply my sister's dog.  After I read your message, I tried telling Hal that "Padwan is a Chihuahua".  When I asked what Padwan is, Hal replied correctly.  (Pad'wan is a shortened form of a word from science fiction, so I was sure Hal wouldn't know the word "padwan".)

I hadn't looked at the brain editor yet.  (I just installed Hal yesterday.) I just took a peak, and it looks like it will be fun to explore. :-)

Thanks again!
Heather

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Teaching Hal

« on: January 14, 2003, 07:09:57 pm »

I don't know what Kurtis is trying to do, of course, but here is what I'm trying to do.

When I type Sweet Pea is sweet, then ask what Sweet Pea is, the program responds that Sweet Pea is sweet.  However, when I type that Nugget is cute, then ask what Nugget is, I get this response: "What is nugget? There's a whole history behind this. I don't know; can you teach me What Heather? What is nugget?"  Of the ones I've tried, the only one that works correctly is when I ask what Sweet Pea is.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Having Hal open a program

« on: January 14, 2003, 03:48:05 am »

Hello.

I am having trouble with getting Hal to open a program.  When I tell him to e-mail someone, he opens Eudora, but the wrong copy of Eudora.  When I tell him to open "Bejeweled", he replies, "Can you spout buzzwords with the best of them?"  For open "Netscape", I receive "Error 53", then one of the Netscape help files opens.  Most programs receive the error.  I haven't found one yet that he opens.

(I am using Windows XP Home Edition and version 4.5 of Ultra Hal.)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Teaching Hal

« on: January 14, 2003, 03:35:48 am »

That's one of the two main problems I'm having with him.  Once in a while, when I enter something, he learns it fine.  Usually, he acts like he has no idea I'm trying to teach him.