Help With Error On $botresponse Aiml

Question

Quick question as I am editing the settings file for the AIML Bot plug in. I got a clean set up with just the AIML Bot plug in. Mostly works just fine, but on occasion I get a correct $BotResponse that is not spoken, with an error message. Can anyone tell me whats happening.

Again correct response is given, just wont speak the response do to error?!

DJ Sures · Answer

Stop putting new blank lines in your AIML

fxrtst · Answer

New blank line? To my knowledge I've not added a blank line anywhere, just simply replacing what is there. Can you explain.

fxrtst · Answer

Maybe notepad is adding something? What should i be editing with?

DJ Sures · Answer

You only showed "Star Wars" as an item from the config. You did not look at the actual response source. I’m not able to provide assistance on using aiml because I don’t have much experience. But I can recommend looking at the source files and not only the config.

ptp · Answer

@DJ, I believe the plugin needs to strip some characters to avoid get stuck in the ARC's regular expressions. I just added the AIM bot (no changes) And i asked the question "favorite movie?"  I tried to process the $BotResponse in a EZ-Script script and i get similar errors.

fxrtst · Answer

No problem, maybe someone else will chime in. I didn't alter any of the response files, only the settings config file.

Jlucben · Answer

Hi I have Hadrien the same problemes in my synbot plugin and have add a filtering code in the plugin

Jlucben · Answer

I have had ...

DJ Sures · Answer

ptp, is it new lines in the source files? It looks like some number of characters in the screenshot. I've been out at a conference all day and traveling - I'll take a peek now that i'm back at my hotel

ptp · Answer

@DJ: Yes the response is in the file:   I believe the culprit is the linefeed. curiosity: https://confluence.qps.nl/fledermaus/questions-answers/other/differences-in-end-of-line-characters-mac-windows-and-linux

Steve G · Answer

I noticed these similar errors as well on certain bot responses. Like Will said, the bots response will show up in the text response window, but not spoken using either Say() or SayEZB() and shows an error in the ARC debug window. Do you also notice the large spaces in the sentence of the bots response that is NOT spoken (look for n post #6). A spoken response will not have this large space and a response that is not spoken with a debug message, will. After some troubleshooting, I did find one possible cause in some of the AIML files. Don’t quote me on the exact tags as I’m not near a computer right now, but It had something to do with a bots template response that contained   or  tags. The tags actually fit in the large spaces in the sentence of the bots response I mentioned above. It’s essentially giving two responses in one sentence, the first half of the sentence, then the topic which contains and redirects to the second part of the sentence, and I think there in lays the problem.  Example: First part of the response... "My favourite movie is 2001 a space Odyssey. " Then the topic tags that sets the movie name, followed by the second part of the response (look in the AIML response window in post #6, you will see the large space between the above response and the one below), ... "Have you seen 2001 a space Odyssey?" What I tried on one response that gave a debug error, was to delete the above Name, Set and Topic tags and left just the Category, Pattern and template tags with the original user question and slight change to the bots template answer as I removed the set topic for the movie name, so instead of "Have you seen 2001?", I put "Have you seen it?". Saved the edited file, reloaded it in the AIML control and this actually did stop the debug error and the response was spoken. Did this on a couple more responses with the same results. Not an ideal fix but good for trial and error as I got a result and hopefully will help with finding a solution. I had the error pop up with favourite movie, fav band and fav song. I’m still going through this and when I’m by a computer tomorrow, I’ll see if I can find the exact AIML tags that throws the error up and let you guys know. Hope what I have posted so far is of some help. Steve.

ptp · Answer

@Steve G: The problem is related to the linefeed character 0x0A. A temporary fix script: create a file "fix_linefeed.vbs" paste the following content/script:
 Option Explicit Main Sub Main Dim Path Dim FileName Dim Files Path = "C:\Users\Public\Documents\EZ-Builder\Plugins\aa184830-399a-4716-bdfc-e766fd792a51\aiml\*.aiml" Files = ListDir(Path ) If UBound(Files ) = -1 then WScript.Echo "No aiml files found." Else For Each FileName In Files WScript.Echo FileName FixLineFeed(FileName ) Next End If Path = "C:\Users\Public\Documents\EZ-Builder\Plugins\aa184830-399a-4716-bdfc-e766fd792a51\config\*.xml" Files = ListDir(Path ) If UBound(Files ) = -1 then WScript.Echo "No xml files found." Else For Each FileName In Files WScript.Echo FileName FixLineFeed(FileName ) Next End If End Sub Public Sub FixLineFeed(ByVal FileName ) Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2 Dim fs, txt, contents Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject" ) Set txt = fs.OpenTextFile(FileName, ForReading ) contents = txt.ReadAll txt.Close contents = Replace(contents, vbCr & vbLf, "[CR-LF]" ) contents = Replace(contents, vbLf, "[CR-LF]" ) contents = Replace(contents, vbCr, "[CR-LF]" ) contents = Replace(contents, "[CR-LF]", vbCR & vbLf ) Set txt = fs.OpenTextFile(FileName, ForWriting ) txt.Write contents txt.Close End Sub Public Function ListDir (ByVal Path ) Dim fso: Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject" ) If Path = "" then Path = "*.*" Dim Parent, Filter if fso.FolderExists(Path ) then ' Path is a directory Parent = Path Filter = "*" Else Parent = fso.GetParentFolderName(Path ) If Parent = "" Then If Right(Path,1 ) = ":" Then Parent = Path: Else Parent = "." Filter = fso.GetFileName(Path ) If Filter = "" Then Filter = "*" End If ReDim a(10 ) Dim n: n = 0 Dim Folder: Set Folder = fso.GetFolder(Parent ) Dim Files: Set Files = Folder.Files Dim File For Each File In Files If CompareFileName(File.Name,Filter ) Then If n > UBound(a ) Then ReDim Preserve a(n*2 ) a(n ) = File.Path n = n + 1 End If Next ReDim Preserve a(n-1 ) ListDir = a End Function Private Function CompareFileName (ByVal Name, ByVal Filter ) ' (recursive ) CompareFileName = False Dim np, fp: np = 1: fp = 1 Do If fp > Len(Filter ) Then CompareFileName = np > len(name ): Exit Function If Mid(Filter,fp ) = ".*" Then ' special case: ".*" at end of filter If np > Len(Name ) Then CompareFileName = True: Exit Function End If If Mid(Filter,fp ) = "." Then ' special case: "." at end of filter CompareFileName = np > Len(Name ): Exit Function End If Dim fc: fc = Mid(Filter,fp,1 ): fp = fp + 1 Select Case fc Case "*" CompareFileName = CompareFileName2(name,np,filter,fp ) Exit Function Case "?" If np  "." Then np = np + 1 Case Else If np > Len(Name ) Then Exit Function Dim nc: nc = Mid(Name,np,1 ): np = np + 1 If Strcomp(fc,nc,vbTextCompare )0 Then Exit Function End Select Loop End Function Private Function CompareFileName2 (ByVal Name, ByVal np0, ByVal Filter, ByVal fp0 ) Dim fp: fp = fp0 Dim fc2 Do ' skip over "*" and "?" characters in filter If fp > Len(Filter ) Then CompareFileName2 = True: Exit Function fc2 = Mid(Filter,fp,1 ): fp = fp + 1 If fc2  "*" And fc2  "?" Then Exit Do Loop If fc2 = "." Then If Mid(Filter,fp ) = "*" Then ' special case: ".*" at end of filter CompareFileName2 = True: Exit Function End If If fp > Len(Filter ) Then ' special case: "." at end of filter CompareFileName2 = InStr(np0,Name,"." ) = 0: Exit Function End If End If Dim np For np = np0 To Len(Name ) Dim nc: nc = Mid(Name,np,1 ) If StrComp(fc2,nc,vbTextCompare )=0 Then If CompareFileName(Mid(Name,np+1 ),Mid(Filter,fp ) ) Then CompareFileName2 = True: Exit Function End If End If Next CompareFileName2 = False End Function

then execute:
 cscript fix_linefeed.vbs

and the problem is gone. PS: No harm is done, if you run multiple times the script.

DJ Sures · Answer

new plugin is updated to work now without being affected by line feeds

fxrtst · Answer

Thanks, really important this works in my meeting.

Steve G · Answer

Thanks for finding the error ptp and for the update DJ. There is something about updating the AIMLBot plug in that people should be aware of.... after the hours and hours of AIML file editing I have put in to my project over the past couple of weeks, updating the plug in has now replaced all of my edited Config settings and more to the point, ALL of my edited AIML files with the default files, so all my changes have now been over written and lost and I will have to start again from scratch. mad So if like me you have spent a looong time editing to make lots of changes to personalise your AIML files... make sure you do a back up of your edited AIML and Config folders before carrying out any future AIMLBot plug in updates until a solution is found, so you don't lose all of your work.

JustinRatliff · Answer

@DJ, if we update AIML files in the plugin folder, will plugin updates blow out our file edits? Or potentially blow them out? Which I guess after reading SteveG last post, actually relates to his post.

DJ Sures · Answer

Yes it’ll overwrite. I’ll think of a solution

JustinRatliff · Answer

@DJ, thank you! I don't say it often enough, but you are awesome! The tools you've brought to the community are amazing! And AIMLBot was a fantastic idea, thank you, thank you for doing that DJ!

fxrtst · Answer

I had same issue. But now working on a complete copies of the files in case it happens again. Maybe its opening and pointing the plug to the folder of aiml files you want to use. For me I have one set for ALAN and one set for Alena and a set of unaltered originals.

Autiboy · Answer

Can you use aimlbot fully offline with speech recognition?

DJ Sures · Answer

Not without entering a lot of pre determined phrases. I can modify it to use the internal speech recognition engine without pre defined phrases, but accuracy is terrible lol

mtwannabe · Answer

@dj Sures     Being able to have a robot offline (like in a public place with no internet) and still able to understand (built-in or using your plugin) and respond (AIML) would be awesome. Sorry @fxrtst not trying to hijack your thread.

danf · Answer

I'd second that. Even with poor accuracy it would be nice to have as a backup if you are someplace with no internet and bad cell reception.

DJ Sures · Answer

danf: you can try this: https://synthiam.com/Software/Manual/Total-Speech-Recognition-17688

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