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It could very well be. It's been quite some
time since I bought my v.5.0 of Hal and
really can't remember all the specifics.
You can always try the license code.

Good Luck,
- Art -

You're certainly welcome, Kathryn.
I must admit, you had me scratching my
head for a while trying to figure out
your problem.
I'd like to say check your version number
was my next guess. HAHA!! But I won't!

Glad you found the solution.

- Art -

I believe the password is usually sent to the purchaser's
email address in a confirmation letter.

If you right click the microphone icon on your task bar
it will bring up another small window. Click Settings
Which will bring up text services. Select Speech Recognition
in the large window then click Properties. This will
bring up a Speech Input Settings window. Click on Advanced
Speech. This will bring up a Speech Properties window where
you can train / retrain your particular voice profile, check
audio levels and microphone settings.

Now you know the rest of the story....

- Art -

It would be really great if one could come up with facial recognition software for your typical webcam and have it link with Hal so that Hal would be able to recognize Bill or Sally or any user of his program. Further development might enable Hal to recognize if the user was happy, sad or indifferent and adjust it's conversation accordingly.
There were a few programs freely available for face rec. a while back but I can no longer find them. I'm sure this proposal would also require a major rewrite for Hal, but think of the possibilities.

To sleep perchance to dream....

Here's looking at you kid....
- Art -

OK, this love thing.
For those of you wishing to get more of a positive response regarding love instead of the "Don't say that unless you really
mean it." from HAL or HALLEY (as the case may be), simply:
In the C:ProgramFilesabawareUltraHalAssistant5Defbrain,
rename love2.brn to love2.brain. Then rename love1.brn to love2brn.
Now rename love2.brain to love1.brn.
What you've done is basically swapped the love1.brn and love2.brn files. The love1 brain files have all the noncommital responses from HAL and the love2 brain files contain the positive type "Yes, I love you too." ones.
Hopefully this will help you avoid any inferiority complexes over being rejected. LOL!
Enjoy,
- Art -

Kathryn,
Go to Control Panel, click on Sounds and Audio Devices.
On the Volume tab click Advanced. Under the microphone
section, make sure mute is not checked.

I'm using XP and under the options settings where it asks
to select SR engine, it shows the Microsoft English Recognizer v.5.1 for voice recognition.

If all else fails, you might try reinstalling HAL.

Good luck,
- Art -

Alecat,
Verbot is a SCRIPTED chatbot. It has no real provision for
learning nor retaining what was previously said. It only
replies with "canned" responses. It does not "learn" from a text
file nor can it compete with even half of the things Hal can do.

While these types of verbots can be scripted to appear clever
in their responses, they really do not come close. The old adage,
"You get what you pay for" you will find, really is true.

Lastly, read through some of the previous postings and you will
find out that Zabaware is still being supported though perhaps
not as regular as some would like. Robert has a rather full plate
but he will get to you.

Good luck,
- Art -

Yes,
The second tab is Brains. Click there then
select one of the brains shown. If you only see
one (like default) then you'll need to DL some
additional ones like Don Ferguson's enhanced
version or the XTF brain or others. Put them into
the brains subfolder under UltraHal and they
should appear for you to choose.
Hope this helps a bit.
- Art -

Did you go to the Options section and
create an account in MyWebHal?
Create an account (free) and select
a source for weather, news, etc.

If you've already done this with no luck,
you might try using another brain for Hal.

Otherwise, that's the best I can come up with.

Good luck,
- Art -

Crunch,
From Haptek's site I read that People Putty does not
support any full body characters, in its player,
only the bust type characters.
This is not to say that it couldn't be modified to work
in or under HAL.
- Art -

quote:Originally posted by HALImprover

Hello Art. Whenever the TTS engine (how Hal talks to you) sees words with capitals that are not at the beginning of the word, it spells part or all of the word. I once used a username that was all capitals and Hal would spell out the entire name!
The only fix that I'm aware of is to add a line to the file Corrections.brn, found in the DefBrain folder. The added line would look something like this:

" aRt "," Art "

Hope this helps [:)]

Thanks HALImprover, I'll certainly give that a shot! Let ya know how
well it works (or not).

PArty on!
- Art -

Though not pArticularly helpful, that is funny![:o)]

- Art -

UH-5.0
My name is Art and that is what Hal knows me by.
Whenever it responds with a word that contains
my name, it both displays and pronounces the word
incorrectly. Ex: smArt or pArty, etc. and its
pronunciation is like smuh Art or pea Arty.

Initially, I never misspelled smart or party but
it is somewhat of an annoyance when this happens.

Any way to resolve this (aside from changing my name)?

Thanks,
- Art -