Getting information from the internet into a chatbot’s output can be very useful at some times. Not only to show continuously changing values, like weather information, but it can potentially also be used for learning, although the latter is obviously a little trickier. Retrieving, or scraping info from the internet can be done remarkably easy [...]
Besides text, a chatbot should also be able to handle other types of basic data, like numbers, date-time and time-spans. Numbers The engine of the chatbot designer app will automatically convert every part of the input text that it can, into an integer or double. Furthermore, with the aid of the thesaurus, you are also [...]
‘A because B’ and ‘Why C’ are 2 tricky statement types for a chatbot to handle correctly. Not only does the data need to be stored and retrieved correctly, but often, some words need to be replaced, like ‘I’ vs ‘you’. Here are some possible techniques you can use with the chatbot designer to handle [...]
The latest release, version 0.8.5 is now available for download. The major changes in this version is centered round speech input and output. support for multiple speech engines The first, and most fundamental change is the fact that the system now supports multiple speech engines. At the moment, there is an implementation for the managed [...]
I just had to get a release out on this date, I mean: 1/11/11, ye! For the curious, there are actually a number of fixes/updates all over the place: Importing/exporting part of a thesaurus has been fixed. There was a problem in the ‘rebuild project’ procedure for the thesaurus which has been fixed. A do-statement [...]