We have gotten our ez-b to play rock paper scissors but having to put in every single item and the response is tedious (kinda like snips.ai or even mycroft)..  I also did look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBkN59e3R8

which is @DJ Sures and Professor E doing the Speech Recognition, but also very tedious if you want say 100 things.

Do this, use the cognitive speech recognition - combined with pandora bot. Should take an hour or less for a new user to configure

https://synthiam.com/Robot/Machine-Learning-And-Cognitive-Services-Jd-Humanoid-Robot-187

Although, you can ask for me to demo it in a live hack session. I have one this evening: https://synthiam.com/HackEvent/DJ-s-First-Live-Robot-Hack-17414

Yes, I have a new pandorabots.com account, but its AIML 2.0 and they don't allow new user id creations on the old site anymore, so I had go lost as to what needed to be done.   I'll take a look again. After I created the new chatbot I was left with this:

looks like there are certain things I can do here.. I can't just cut / paste pics ...let's try again

Sorry, you didn’t read any of the links. The pandora bot is a control in the ARC software and it’s free.

Also, you can use the aimlbot control as well, which is local and runs without an internet connection.

Here’s a link to the aiml: https://synthiam.com/Software/Manual/AimlBot-16020

I’ll demo tonight how to do what you’re asking in my live hack. It’ll take about 45 seconds to setup so watch closely.

@dj sures.  didn't read any of the links.  Huff.  So not true.  Let me post directly from the thread on pandorabots

Also, I'll be getting my bing API key (trial) tonight (sometime during work if I have time).

I think the issue is that Pandorabots have moved on from 1.0 and no longer support it. Unless you use the link provided in the tutorial here you will be directed to their new site which does not work with the plugin. You can not simply Google Pandorabots and set up an account.

You need to pay attention closely to the tutorials here as they pretty much all work. I bet if you set it up as per the tutorial you would be really impressed with how it works.

You can print the inmoov head, bring it to life with the already free software available here, and have your very own custom Alan (with a new name of course). Many of us have already done this.

You don't need ah API trial for the basic speech recognition. I recommend using this one first: https://synthiam.com/Software/Manual/Bing-Speech-Recognition-16209

I'll update the cognitive service demo video to the correct link. thanks for teh heads up Have fun at work! We'll be working hard at building robots lol

Here, i edited the robot project to include more description and updated links to the controls: https://synthiam.com/Robot/Machine-Learning-And-Cognitive-Services-Jd-Humanoid-Robot-187

specifically there is now reference to AIMLBot and the bing speech recognition that doesn't require an API key.

have fun!

Love the AIML stuff.  It works great.  This could be possible for my son to understand I'm going to play a bit more with it, but just changing the name of the robot and its favorite color and such (used the original A.L.I.C.E.) aiml was a success.  So, I'll now (for my myself) start looking at the Synbot stuff as I think we have success with AIML. Thanks a bunch everyone

The Synbot is quite a bit complicated - have you looked at AIMLBOT plugin? https://synthiam.com/Software/Manual/AimlBot-16020

I recommend that - because it just works and it's really really easy. I mentioned it a few times because i really really recommend it because you can start using it immediately without any issues 

@ mtwannabe sorry I just saw this post. As for Alan and Alena we are closer than we ever have to bringing the robots to market.

As for you question DJ has you covered AImlbot is really easy to customize and works without an Internet connection. It’s local and windows speech to txt is local. So you can take you bot on the road!