Ultra Hal Assistant is an artificial intelligence program that can keep an appointment calendar and phone book, remind you of important dates, help you browse the Internet, run programs, and chat with you. You can chat with Ultra Hal just like you would chat with a human. Ultra Hal Assistant learns automatically while you talk to him. He has his own voice that can say any word in English through your sound card, and has an animated face that shows emotions. There are 10 different voices and several personalities from which to choose. Ultra Hal Assistant can keep appointments and remind you when they approach, remember phone numbers and dial them, help you browse the Internet (by telling you the weather, performing searching, and giving you current news), remember e-mail addresses and automatically start an e-mail for you, remember addresses in his address book, run any Windows program on command, help you with questions about Windows and many other programs, and act as a calculator to perform simple math. It has a user interface that can be customized with skins.