changing voices on the fly uhp plug in .

[lightspeed]

         i was wondering about changing voices on the fly as a uhp plug in , i know that one was done that could change outfits on full bodies . but did anyone ever make one that could change voices on the fly ? by typing in or saying a command and the voice name ? ( to change it to ).
 if not does anyone want to create one . 

on another subject with dragon speak i also wish dragon speak could accept any voice talking with it to respond back through hal . not just my voice .
     maybe in a future model they will .
   

[Art]

Don't know off hand but I've see other TTS based programs allow for changing the character's voices. One was a Home Automation program using the Hal2000 software, NOT our Hal which is actually UltraHal. Never-the-less, the guy had three different characters he could converse with.
Pretty cool. The user could be speaking to Sally and ask if Jill was nearby. Short pause or a "Wait a second" response, then Jill is now appearing and using her own TTS voice.

I'm sure someone will dig deeper into this.

Glad you bought that up again LightSpeed!

[lightspeed]

      Art that sounds like a very cool concept , as some of us , many probably have different voices and characters , that would indeed be very cool . talking to one character (jane ) then say what do you think about (and the subject you were talking about ) betty ? and betty would start talking in a different voice .
  of course in doing this what would also be needed would be something that would also switch brain data base , uhp , and the hla file to . (hla a.i. name file)  but that would be a cool deal ! 
also Art , thanks for your info about this . 

[Carl2]

  I remember reading about that in the Hapktec SDK, you use multiple people and set person giving it a name and have to refer to that name when giving commands.  Took a quick look  and  didn't come up with much.  I'm not sure but I think someone had something on changing voices it may be one of the commands hal can input and change the voice.
Carl2

[lightspeed]

well i know that one plug in had changing characters on the fly and even outfits , and maybe it could be based on this , using the correct pathway in the programs file . 

[Carl2]

Lightspeed,
  just came across this a list of hal commands

<SHOWHAL>
<HIDEHAL>
<SHOWCAL>
<SHOWEVENTS>
<SHOWOPTIONS>
<MICOFF>
<MICON>
<MICTOGGLE>
<VIEWCHAT>
<AUTO>miliseconds</AUTO>
<AUTOOFF>
<HALPAD>
<HALPAD>file-path</HALPAD>
<VOICE>new voice</VOICE>
<SPEAK>Text to speak</SPEAK>
<DIAL>Phone</DIAL>
<HAPBACK>jpeg path</HAPBACK>
<AGENTXY>X,Y</AGENTXY>
<MSAGENT>Anim name</MSAGENT>
<HAPFILE>Hap file</HAPFILE>
<HAPTEXT>Hap text</HAPTEXT>
<RUNPROG>Prog name</RUNPROG>
<RESPOND>User sent</RESPOND>
<CUSERNAME>New user name</CUSERNAME>
<CHALNAME>New Hal Name</CHALNAME>
<RUNCMD>1 line of VBScript</RUNCMD>

Hear is the link but there is not much info.  be nice to make a user input which if true runs the "<VOICE>new voice</VOICE>" command, at the time it sounds easy not sure what you might run into.
Carl2