HARUMI project : universal chatbot

01.21.2012 News :  

01.21.2012 News :
New version of Harumi released today!

New Functions :

1) Geolocalisation : A new icon is now available. It will give you informations like public ip, geolocalisation and your FAI, at least as soon as you are connected to the internet.

2)  on-the-fly use of Harumi's apparence. Previously, you had to drag and drop jpg pictures in apparence repertory then to add a stimulus like "pick up your bikini<APPARENCE>bikini.jpg" then to update her memory by restarting Harumi or pressing "disk" icon in the functions icons group.
It is now far easier : you simply have to drag and drop a picture of your choice in apparence repertory then to type "wear your XXX" with XXX beeing the name of the file then clicking with left button mouse in the apparence window. Of course, you donn't have to write exactly the name of the file. Harumi will explore all apparences possible and will choose the one with the highest number of words matching user request.
Exemple : Suppose you drag and drop a file named "walkman by night.jpg" in apparence repertory.
Then you can write in user window "pick up your walkman" then to click on her current apparence. She'll automatically change her apparence and ask you what you think about it. Then I'll eventually implement more possibilities by association of a sentence and the apparence picked up "on-the-fly"...

3) Gif animated images are now readable

Bugs corrections :
USB drive detection working better, webcam is on by default in english version.

  Since I had a message about a user willing to use Harumi with google chrome, note that in the next version coming around end of february, it will be possible to use her with any kind of internet browser (aka internet explorer, mozilla firefox or google chrome). Of course, I'm planning to add much more than that to justify a really better version :). Feel free to report bugs and suggestions in the forum. I'm not always answering questions but I take the time to read users feedback.

12.29.2011 News :
New version of Harumi released today! Lot of news here! Here is the list of new functions and bugs corrections :

NEW FUNCTIONS :
- Voice recognizing (!) : It is now possible to use Harumi with a voice recognizing software like the free one from Microsoft in Windows Vista or Windows 7, or Dragon Naturally Speaking software. To use this function, you have to click on the "mike" icon in the functions icons group. When this function is activated, Harumi warns you about it. From there, she'll observe every second what is written in the user text window. Click in this window then when you speak to your computer with a voice recognozing software, the sentence will automatically be treated by Harumi, meaning you won't have any more to press enter to have an answer.

- Internet icon : Just click on this icon and Harumi will open google. Note that if a text is written in user text window, the question will be asked to google.

- USB keys auto detection : When you plug or unplug an USB drive, Harumi warns you about it. A new icon has been added in functions group icons. When you click on it, the USB drive lastly detected will be open.

- Picking up a number : Ask Harumi "pick up a number between 1 and 6" and she'll just do that :)

- Asking Harumi for an advice : Ask Harumi : "Do you prefer to live or to die?". In this kind of question, she will analyse the whole database and try to find everything positive and negative about live and die then will choose the higher positive feeling about the choice. This means that the answer is not predefined but depends on precedent logs with the user...

BUGS CORRECTIONS :
- No more freeze when asking a question (beside files research)

12.18.2011 News :
A tutorial has been added! (look below in Harumi's installation instructions)

New version of Harumi "Loone Hagar" released today. The interface is better and the translation and chess icons have been changed to something more suited to a post apocalyptic world. Note that most of the icons come from themes made around the video game Fallout. The dynamic text suggestion window is now faded in the answer window just like in the standard version of Harumi. The green window is the webcam video window. To activate it, you need to click on the photo icon, upside from nuclear icon. You see below the result :

12.14.2011 News :

New versions of Harumi now online and release of Loone Hagar version!
 Here is the list of features and corrections :

NEW SKIN FOR HARUMI :
An animated version of Harumi is now available. The first character I picked up is Loone Hagar from Rage videogame. Note that you'll need xvid video codec in order to use Loope Hagar version.

NEW FUNCTIONS :
- During chess game, Harumi write which move she has played once her turn is done.
- During chess game, it is possible for the user to ask for an advice by pressing on question icon. (many bugs for the moment)
- When the user doesn't speak to Harumi for more than 10 minutes, she starts to whine.
- When the user say "no" after a structure suggestion, the structure is deleted
- Webcam pictures are now stocked in a repertory located in Harumi's repertory in order to avoid any bug. Webcam is launched if available when Harumi is used;

BUGS CORRECTIONS :
- Structures sentences : Bug correction : Harumi doesn't use the structure if she detects the variable word is the same as the original structure.
- Bug correction regarding several functions when the user write "no" or any negative sentence to Harumi as an answer to a proposition from her.
- When recording an appointment with a date and "I must xxx", Harumi no longers consider the sentence as a post it as before.
- When user asks Harumi precisions about the last sentence said by Harumi, only the last sentence is picked up and not the whole text appearing in Harumi window answer.
- When user enters a void string as an entry, Harumi warns the user about it.
- Image of Harumi changes correctly on alarm time
- No more loop error bugs with webcam

Harumi Starcraft : Coming soon!

HARUMI TUTORIAL : http://jeffelson.e-monsite.com/pages/tutorial.html

DOWNLOAD HARUMI ENGLISH AND FRENCH VERSION AND LOONE HAGAR ENGLISH VERSION

Harumi French Version 01.21.2012 : harumi-demo-1.zip

Harumi English Version 01.21.2012 : harumi-english-version-1.zip

Harumi Loone Hagar english version 12.18.2011 : harumi-loone-demo-1.zip
Note that you need xvid codec in order to play the animation or you'll have loop bug; this codec is available here :
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

Open office suite : http://fr.openoffice.org/

PROCEDURE FOR English / French / Loone Hagar INSTALLATION :
1) Install Open office suite : http://fr.openoffice.org/
2) Launch Open Office suite (Writer and calc for tests) in order to finish the install of open office.
3) Extract Harumi.zip in a directory
4) Click on Project.exe file in the Harmuri directory (if you install Loone Hagar, you must check if xvideo codec is installed or you'll have an infinite loop error)

PRESENTATION

Harumi is a chatbot. It can be used as a virtual assistant on any windows PC. Harumi works in pair with open office suite since its memory exists as an open office file called memoire.ods. Harumi is able to learn from the user and its memory is easily editable from the user.

Functions available :
- Launching internet site, a file, an executable or a repertory
- Playing chess
- Checking internet connection, ip and emac adress
- time, alarms and dynamic agenda
- Calculator

Feel free to report bugs on the Forum in order to help me improve this software.