HAL Voices add-on

HALvoices is here by popular demand of HAL users.  We asked what you wanted most in HAL - and you told us you wanted HAL to sound more human.  You wanted HAL's voices to sound less like a talking computer - and more like a person.  Welcome to HALvoices! HALvoices are designed to make HAL's award-winning natural speech home control software more personable as HAL confirms user commands and reads Internet information like stock quotes, Email, and much more. HALvoices is an add-on product to the core HAL systems including HALbasic, HALdeluxe and HAL2000.  HALvoices delivers state-of-the-art synthetic speech that is so human-sounding it's hard to tell the difference.  Once you install HALvoices on your HAL system, you will have the choice of using either of the original male/female voices or the male/female voices of whichever version of HALvoices you install.  HALvoices includes both male and female voices, Michelle and Michael (see below for hear samples of the different voices).  You can use HALvoices no matter which English version you're using for HALbasic, HALdeluxe, or HAL2000. Voice quality is a key feature in HAL home control systems. HAL software and hardware products give users the ability to control their homes - by voice - from anywhere. Users may speak to any microphone connected to the PC or to any phone anywhere to control lights, devices, appliances, thermostat, home theatre, security, telephone, and Internet with normal, conversational speech. HALvoices represents a collaboration between Home Automated Living and AT&T. HALvoices employs the AT&T Labs Natural Voices text-to-speech engine. AT&T Labs has long been the world's speech technology pioneer, innovating the highest quality and most robust speech systems available anywhere. HAL built the AT&T technology into HALvoices because we found AT&T's technology to be the most realistic, human-sounding synthetic speech system available on the market today. Improvements are being made in speech technology daily and HAL is working to include every technological advance in the HALvoices products. HAL users have grown accustomed to frequent free software updates. HALvoices will be updated similarly so you can be sure you will always have leading edge voice technology in your HAL system.

HAL voices HAL Standard voices Michael or Michelle Male or Female