HAL for Windows

User Reviews

• The program is a Demo

  jch1701May 18, 2008

  Pros

  The program is listed as a free program. It is not free. It is a demo!

  Cons

  The program is listed as a free program. It is not free. It is a demo!

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• Works great for reading Word, wordpad, html, and PDFs

  eadewittMarch 9, 2008

  Pros

  I'm in grad school so I have a lot of reading to do. Sometimes I just can't focus my eyes on the page anymore. So I highlight the text, press CTRL+C and say "Hal, Read Text" and off he goes. I'm using the demo version. I can't type in commands, and he only responds to a few voice commands. I have to repeat myself a lot to get him to read. But once he gets going he reads fast enough that I can get done with a reading pretty quickly. There is a little text bubble that shows the words he's reading at the moment which helps me understand him.

  Cons

  The text bubble is important because he mispronounces a lot of things and screws up the sentence cadence a lot. I would like to purchase the full version.

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• Does not work

  jabbampJuly 24, 2007

  Pros

  Nothing coz it don't work<p>It got one star because you cant choose less than one star for a review.

  Cons

  Whisper, talk, shout into your mics and just end up feeling stupid talking to your self while your pc just waits for your keyboard commands. <p>It don't work.

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• It sounds a lot like...

  Milo_MinderbinderAugust 29, 2006

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  ...

  Cons

  ...the HAL it's based on. Stubborn, malicious, bent on taking over at all costs. "Open the podbay doors, Hal." "I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave."

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• Works for me! I like it so far... No problems

  rknmAugust 17, 2006

  Pros

  Works! No problem with DOWNLOAD or operation. Just commmon sense... I downloaded and used it in minutes! WINDOWS XP.

  Cons

  So far, NONE! There may be some, but I have no complaints for now..

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• DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!!

  deathnabJune 9, 2006

  Pros

  There are none

  Cons

  This program is full of spyware. It attempted to connect to the internet when I installed and ran it. My security software picked it up immediately. I had trouble uninstalling it and it froze my computer several times. DO NO DOWNLOAD

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• it suks!! it takes over your computer!!!

  yprtbMarch 25, 2005

  Pros

  none

  Cons

  it tries to connect to the internet immediatly after its downloaded.norten firewall told me and scanned it. it said it shouldnt be messed with in lamence terms. when the setup is complete the hard drive starts buzzing w/ all the cd rom drives, and then ejects them and reinserts them, then it tries to get your system over! do not download!!!!!i repeat!!

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• dont waste time...No use at all

  millon99February 23, 2005

  Pros

  well it doesnt run so lets say pros are none

  Cons

  Well cant say much about the software, it does not even run on WinXP. Also it is no freeware but just a demo(as if the demo is gonna help the creator) so dont waste time downloading this software.....man whoever made it take it off and run on your own PC we dont need it!

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• Horrible!

  December 28, 2004

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  Summary

  This program does not install correctly on XP platforms. I thought maybe there was a problem when downloading so I redownloaded and tried to install to no avail agian. When a program has a license as "free" it should be free, it shouldn't be a trial version that is nearly useless to anyone that downloads it. This is a horrible program DO NOT DONWLOAD!

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• it's impossible correctly installing

  August 15, 2004

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  Summary

  i tried a lot of time to install it but it was extremely long and it doesn't run (path not found).

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