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 bot has 2 types of memory at it’s disposal: short and long term memory, but with some tricks, a mid term memory function can also be simulated. Short term memory Or also called ‘volatile’ as it’s content is lost in time, can be accessed through the use of variables in the patterns. Input patterns [...]
It’s possible to create your own characters for the chatbot designer app. The process consists out of 2 parts: first you need to create a set of images, once that’s done, you need to make a ccs file that combines all the images. Images The animations and visemes are stored as a series of images [...]
The fingers are still smoking and the joints are glowing red-hot but I got there. Time for a first beta release! There are still a few things here and there, but hey, it’s a beta, right. So, with no further ado, here’s the basic version and also the pro (the latter will remain active until [...]
A final pre-release video on how you can call .net functions from within your chatbot. The idea behind this feature is to allow you to extend your chatbot with custom features. This will only be available in the pro version though. Note: the video is best viewed in max resolution and full screen to see [...]
Check out the new character, called ‘Mika’: Pretty cool He!. I think so as well. The character is another of Laticis Imagery’s creations. Ady provided all the images and I assembled them into a single character. The video demonstrates all the available expressions, which can be activated in the output using ‘mark’ ssml tags. Perhaps [...]
For those who have been wondering what the bleep I have been up to for the past few months, well check out the video: Looks pretty cool he? So, what happened? Well in short, I took the neural network designer, removed everything complicated from view that remotely had anything to do with ‘neurons’ but kept [...]