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Hi guys, about 3 years back I asked if there was a way to reduce the 5 sec delay in Hal's response when using a microphone. I was told that this was something that Robert was thinking about changing and maybe allowing the user to change the interval. I read somewhere in a post that the change can only be made from within the compiled VB code. Has there been any progress on this yet? Is Robert still working on this project? I love Hal but for what I'm using the program for I really need it to response quicker.

Thanks!

Hi guys! I have some cepstal voices installed on my computer, I'm using one for Hal but I want to be able to change the pitch of the voice. The voice's advanced setting in Hal do not bring up any options, I'm assuming there are not any for that voice. Is there another way to change Hal's voice pitch programmatically? Maybe a plugin or something?

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Hi guys,

I've notice that the default tables in Hal's database dont have any rows in them and some tables are missing. I dont know the names of the tables however I do know that when I first installed Hal he had a lot of responses and tables which now for me do not exist. I dont know why or how this happened. Is there a way to restore or replace the database? Hal doesnt learn anymore and the conversions are terrible.

Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm stumped!! I'm trying to create a hal plugin that will go out to wikipedia and grab a portion of the content and display it. I created a vbscript program that does this and works fine on its own, however when I try to put it in a uhp file and add it as a plugin it doesn't work, so many different errors no matter what I do. Below is the code, please let me know there is a way to get it working.


Rem Type=Plugin
Rem Name=KITT Wiki
Rem Author= Victor
Rem Host=Assistant

'------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' KITTWiki.uhp - Release 1.0 by Victor Yacobucci. 02-25-2016
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rem PLUGIN: PLUGINAREA1

vrToSearch = ""
vrToSearch = UCase(HalBrain.SearchPattern(UserSentence, "*search for*", 2))
GetResponse = "searching for "& vrToSearch &" "


'    Declaration of variables
Dim ie
'    Declaration of subroutines
'    Sub WaitForLoad waits for webpage to finish loading
'    before proceeding with next line of code
Sub WaitForLoad
    Do while ie.Busy or ie.readystate <> 4
        wscript.sleep 2000
    Loop
End Sub
'    Open windows Internet explorer and surf to website
set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With ie
    .Navigate "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan"
    .Toolbar=0
    .StatusBar=0
    .Height=560
    .Width=1000
    .Top=0
    .Left=0
    .Resizable=0
    WaitForLoad
    .Visible = false
end with
'  Add code below to display in a msgbox the contents of each cell in column 0 (first column) should loop for each row.
dim element
dim counter
dim item
Set element = ie.document.getElementById("mw-content-text").getElementsByTagName("p")
   counter = 1
   For Each x In element
      If(counter < 3) Then
      content = Replace(x.innerText,"[","")
      content = Replace(x.innerText,"]","")
      content = Replace(x.innerText,"(","")
      content = Replace(x.innerText,")","")
          MsgBox content
        End If
        counter = counter + 1
    Next

Hi guys,

Has there been any progress on creating a way to change Hal's response time when speaking to him? Right now he has a 5 second delay before he gives a response. I've built a robot that uses Hal to have a conversation with you.  When i demo it to other people they like it but they always ask me why he has a long delay. Its just to long of a response time and makes it feel like a scripted conversion. Please, please create a way for us to be able to change the delay time. I'll pay more for that feature!!

Thank you

Is there a area in Hal's script where I can change the response time when speaking to Hal from a mic? Right now I speak to him and an it takes around 5 sec for him to respond. I would like him to respond quicker as if I hit the enter button after speaking. I guess there is a delay in his response so that the speaker can pause then continue speaking before Hal responds.

["ERROR: Unknown return_code:FALSE_MAIN_LF_CORRUPT. Please contact vendor. Shutting down."]

Hello,

Yesterday when I restarted my CPU I received the following error with Hal on start up
"ERROR: Unknown return_code:FALSE_MAIN_LF_CORRUPT. Please contact vendor. Shutting down."
Please see attachments. I tried completely uninstalled Hal and deleted the registry entries then reinstalled it and still received the two error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I need to add some custom code that will allow the cursor to stay pinned inside Hal's input text box. Example if I ask Hal to open windows media player the cursor loses focus with Hals input text box. I want to add a "setFocus" command to the text box. Does anyone know the name of the text box? I've looked in the halScript but i only see "InputString" referenced but i believe that is the string name. Could someone please help?

I've create a plugin for Hal a year ago, it contains phrases and commands to execute programs. Up until a week ago I was able to edit the file and change the phrases and commands and Hal would say them and execute the programs with no problems. Now all of a sudden when I edit the plugin Hal does not recognize the changes, there are no errors and I checked  the HalScript to make sure the new changes were in the file and they were. Any ideas as to what could be causing Hal to not recognize the changes. The plugin has been working fine for a year.

Hi everyone.

I would like to edit when Hal says "I am executing this program for you". Can anyone help me find where this is located in Hal's script?

Is there a plugin or a piece of code I could use to have Hal open a program on the desktop without having to say "open" I'm using Hal to open a C# script that I wrote which will turn on my dash lights in my car. Its works fine but I have to say "open start up" which doesnt sound very impressive to other people watching lol. I want to be able to say "start up" and Hal will open the program. I haven't found a plugin yet for this but I was wondering if you could code it right into Hal's script. Can anyone help with this?

Thanks.

Hello,

Is there a way to have Hal open any exe file located on the desktop? Seems like you could just ask Hal to open "test.exe" and he should open it but thats not the case. Can anyone assist with this? Could I hard code it in Hal's script?

Thanks.