[pandorabots-general] custom made "body" for the chatbot

Stanley E. Honour stan at adnamis.org
Fri Mar 28 15:06:17 PST 2008 

Chris, there is something else that would give you a jump start.   On the Alice bots web site is a software AIML down load called the ‘superbot’.  It is a database of the 10,000 most commonly asked questions people ask a bot.   It can be edited so the responses more reflect the personality of your bot; and of course you can add your own stuff.   By the way, just to be impartial, two of the very best AI engines are “UltraHal” of www.zabaware.com and “Joan” of jabberwacky.com   both have General purpose databases that you can tap into.

You and your buddies might be very interested in the AIM bot interface offered by Ultrahal.   Who is your target audience?   Why should they spend time talking to your bot?   Is it all just for a learning experience, or do you have longer term goals?

 

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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: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:38 AM
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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.

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From: "MSN" <brian_hoecht at msn.com>
Sent 3/28/2008 8:02:02 AM
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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
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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
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hey Thomas if you made a body for your pandora bot using macromediafireworks how would you apply it to your bot??
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From: "Messerschmidt, Thomas" <thomas.messerschmidt at av.abbott.com>
Sent 3/25/2008 12:20:32 PM
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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
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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)
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From: "Stanley E. Honour" <stan at adnamis.org>
Sent 3/24/2008 5:00:07 PM
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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.

 

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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 Messerschmidt, Thomas
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:29 PM
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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
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Cc: me.samtheswanster at yahoo.com
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No one yet has integrated Speech to Text  -->  Chatbot API  --> 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
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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

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"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
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	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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