[Carl2]

   This is an old favorite of mine that I'd thought about years ago, very similar to triggering by users input but you take hal's output and look for trigger words.  Naturaly hal's output has a it's own name used in Hal which I finaly learned ages ago but did not use at that time.  Question what is the name used in Hal for Hal's output?  Of course if I knew the name I could do a search at Zabaware.
Carl2

[james]

Here's an exceprt from Hal's brain:

    'RESPOND: USER DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING
    'If GoodSentence has not been set to true, then that means the user didn't
    'type anything of use, so we ask the user to say something.
    If GoodSentence = False Then
        UltraHal = "Please say something."
        Exit Function
    End If

It looks like "UltraHal' is the variable that holds Hal's responses. It should be too hard to adapt a script to trigger items when Hal speaks. Maybe I'll work on this next. I'm intrigued.

[Carl2]

James,
  I found this at Zabaware:   The user's input sentence is UserSentence and Hal's output sentence is HalsResponse.
I've put in Vrossi's Haptek plugin, he uses a different way to do the same thing, He has created a brain table and uses:
 look in the vrEmotionDetect table if Hal said something that triggers an emotional behaviour
'------------------
   vrEmotion = HalBrain.TopicSearch(vrLookup, "vrEmotionDetect")
   If vrEmotion <> "" Then
      vrFile = vrEmotion & ".HAP"
   End If
End If
   There is a lot that can be done with the program.
Carl2