[pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
james riley
jimr1603 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 05:42:45 PST 2008
I have thought that two chatbots together would be an interesting variation
on the Turing test. Well, it's a start of a character concept, and shouldn't
be too hard to implement, as long as you put the time in.
On 28/03/2008, Wright, Chris <175236 at smail.ucdsb.on.ca> wrote:
>
> sorry for the long post guys
>
> Stanley--> thatnk you for your out put ant the sites. You guys may call me
> Chris or Karisu, they both are my name, it just feels funny being call
> "Student" (lol) I am very glad that people would be willing to help an
> amateur at such a cool project. I am kinda looking for a childish
> personality for my bot as well. One that is always teasing, and if some one
> asks "what do you like to do with your friends?" he would reply with
> something along the lines of "Well i like to torment D.C., and Tesshin
> helps me do that." and if they ask "Well what do you do to torment D.C.?"
> He would reply with something like "Oh we just burry him for a bit." that
> kind of thing. a character that would express the complete stereotypical 12
> year old who like to torment his pets. If it helps i gan describe Tesshin
> and D.C. so you guys can get a feel for them and *their* characters as
> well. A question i just thought of too, is it possible to link two chabot
> together so they would chat with eachother on occasions? i just thought that
> might be interesting to watch them interact. MSN--> I would be extremely
> greatfull if you could share some aiml with me, i would definnatly put a
> specail thanks to you for supplying it and i would mention you name of
> course too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "MSN" <brian_hoecht at msn.com>
> Sent 3/28/2008 8:02:02 AM
> To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> I'll donate my company's AIML Editor to the student project… just want
> "recognition" in the marketing credits if it goes anywhere.
>
>
>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+brian_hoecht=
> msn.com at list.pandorabots.com [mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+brian_hoecht=msn.com at list.pandorabots.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Stanley E. Honour
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:04 PM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
>
>
> Building a good bot can be a very time consuming project. Good bots as
> ranked in popularity polls generally have over 10,000 entries in their data
> bases.
>
> Companies that provide complete solutions, including avatar integration
> are listed below, this is not a complete list; but shows some of the more
> established companies in this field.
>
> Sitepal.com -- Uses flash technology. Vhost.com Oddcast.com -- both
> proprietary.
>
> Verbots.com -- Good tech support and user forum, low entry level price,
> but AI database not AIML compatible, but converter code is available.
>
> Haptek.com -- Their focus is more on the animation side; they provide
> very good avatars and very easy to use animation software. An API has been
> developed to interface Alice bots and AIML.
>
> You will find that the 'meat and potatoes' of your bot must be its
> knowledge base. Unless your bot can give good responses the entire
> exercise is pointless.
>
> So you must carefully plan the world or 'domain' your bot will converse
> about. You must limit the number of possible subjects the bot can talk
> about or the size of the needed knowledge base will become gigantic. This
> affects the characters your bot can portray or 'act out'. For example you
> could have a James Bond 007 character, or you could have a Daffy Duck
> character. A bot KB that simulates the responses of agent 007 would have
> to be vastly larger than the knowledge base that would be needed for Daffy
> Duck. Do you have a target audience in mind? What is the purpose for your
> bot? Have you defined your goals? Good luck Thomas.
>
> Does anyone else have a recommendation for a product or Freeware Kit good
> for a student entry level project??
>
>
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>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com[mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Wright, Chris
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:10 PM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
>
>
>
> hey Thomas if you made a body for your pandora bot using
> macromediafireworks how would you apply it to your bot??
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Messerschmidt, Thomas" <thomas.messerschmidt at av.abbott.com>
> Sent 3/25/2008 12:20:32 PM
> To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
>
>
> Very good. Go for it!
>
>
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>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+thomas.messerschmidt=
> av.abbott.com at list.pandorabots.com [mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+thomas.messerschmidt=av.abbott.com at list.pandorabots.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Wright, Chris
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:54 AM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
>
> I'm just a grade twelve student in the Upper Canada Distric School Board
> and i just wanted to make my own chat bot, and have some fun with it.
> (further details later i have to get to class)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Stanley E. Honour" <stan at adnamis.org>
> Sent 3/24/2008 5:00:07 PM
> To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> Great!! I'd love to hear about your experience. What methods &
> products did you use and why? What goals did you have, what is the purpose
> of your bot; or who is your target audience? Are you a hobbyist or a R&D
> commercial developer? In which case I will understand a reluctance to share
> proprietary info.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com[mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Messerschmidt, Thomas
> *Sent:* Monday, March 24, 2008 12:29 PM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> I have.
>
>
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>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+thomas.messerschmidt=
> av.abbott.com at list.pandorabots.com [mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+thomas.messerschmidt=av.abbott.com at list.pandorabots.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Stanley E. Honour
> *Sent:* Monday, March 24, 2008 9:42 AM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Cc:* me.samtheswanster at yahoo.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> No one yet has integrated Speech to Text à Chatbot API à text to speech
> that I know of. Many bots have code for output to speech using different
> products. Off the top of my head I think there are about 6 different
> products to choose from that have teck support and many more that are 'home
> brew'. On the input side Dragon Naturally Speaking (current version) will
> give you excellent results, though the developer kit is expensive. To run
> well you will want a main board 2ghz or above with at least 512mb of ram.
> Window 2000 pro will do better for you than xp or Vista; less overhead. I
> don't know if Dragon is available in a Linux version; but most of the text
> to speech APIs are windows based. Check with Dragon tech (Nuance) for the
> best sound board to use, it can make a big difference. And of course, do
> not use a cheap microphone. With good hardware the accuracy of Dragon
> approaches 99% with training, but training is not now essential as accuracy
> is still above 85% with no training.
>
>
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>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com[mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Sam Schwenneker
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:11 PM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* Re: [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> Hello i am building a new Android and plan on installing a
> small motherboard into the chest cavity and possibly running two programs
> like speech to text then bouncing that text back to speech mimicing the
> original text answer, so the second text to speech would reply to the
> original question. I figure this is one way of running a speech to speech
> program/s. I have also recently hear of something through APL algorythm?. I
> am very new to this. If anyone has any input or feedback on the whole speech
> to speech recognition thing, please contact me.samtheswanster at yahoo.com
>
> (Botmaster)
>
> *"Stanley E. Honour" <stan at adnamis.org>* wrote:
>
> A bit more info would help. What web environment did you program for,
> using what programming tools? E.g. Adobe dreamweaver and flash? Do you
> plan to work inside an environment such as Second Life, or perhaps World of
> Warcraft? Did you use a special purpose tool such as Haptec’s
> products? If you used a pro animation tool, what was it? Or do you
> actually mean a hardware robot? There is a lot of experimentation going on
> right now with Avatar interfaces, so some one should be able to give you
> specific advice.
>
>
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>
> *From:* pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com[mailto:
> pandorabots-general-bounces+stan=adnamis.org at list.pandorabots.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Wright, Chris
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:18 PM
> *To:* pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> *Subject:* [pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot
>
> hi i made a body for my chat bot ,Caleb Wolfe, and i don't know how to
> insert it to my chat bot. and i can't find how to do that on the help
> section, could you help me??
>
>
> Raito Karisu
>
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