I finally managed to update all the tutorials. Since it’s so close to the release date, I figured to go ahead and put them up on the new site over at www.bragisoft.com/tutorials. The site itself is still a bit of a mess, but the tutorial section is coming along nicely.
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 [...]
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 chatbot designer uses a number of different file types to accomplish different tasks. Here’s a short overview of all possible files (and sometimes directories): Projects A project contains the entire neural network (in binary form) together with a bunch of configuration files in a directory. This directory is accompanied by the main project file. [...]