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Ultra Hal is a chatbot intended to function as a virtual assistant. It was developed by Zabaware, Inc.

Ultra Hal uses a natural language interface with animated characters using speech synthesis. Users can communicate with the chatterbot via typing or via a speech recognition engine. It utilizes the WordNet lexical dictionary. Its name is an allusion to HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . [1]

Ultra Hal won the 2007 Loebner Prize for "most human" chatterbot. [2]

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References

  1. Jacobi, John L. (June 17, 2009). "Editorial review of Ultra Hal Assistant". PCWorld.
  2. Martin, Jim (November 4, 2007). "Hal's odyssey". Erie Times-News.