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There has been a lot of talk recently about adding conversational A.I. to your robot. Many years ago, I created a learning A.I. called Synthia. I appreciate the interest in Synthia, however she'd require a bit of work to go public. So, a few of you have mentioned PandoraBots - which is an online bot hosting service.
This release introduces a PandoraBot Control, found under the Speech category when adding controls. Please use the ? to read details on how this control works, and the issues with speech recognition. There is also an Example Project you may load to review functionality.
If you create your own Bot, you may also add speech commands that are specific to your robot. If you review the example that I had included, you will notice that "Move servo Left" will execute EZ-Script. Any response that includes EZ-Script can be surrounded by [ and ]. The help page will explain more
- New Control: PandoraBot Artificial Intelligence
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Excellent work, I'll certainly be trying that out as soon as I download and install the update.
You may have changed my mind about my Hearoid not talking with this update, it's just too good a feature not to use!
Edit: Couple of notes, which may be specific to my system. The configuration screen is full screen with only the pandorabots id and username, it just seems a little large for what's in it. Clicking on the pandorabots link on the control brought up an error "System.ArgumentException: Help URL 'www.pandorabots.com' is not valid."
It may be my system, it seems to be running a bit slow tonight but thought I would bring them to your attention anyway just in case
Other than that... awesome!
@rich naww it does same too me that error
yea it will be cool for my genie. robot
dj just fix this morning lol i had update again it links to web site now
This is an awesome update cant get EZ-B to talk to my Pandorabot though does the ez-b panel need a password as well?
@winstn60 Have you "published" your bot?
Ahh I'll try that when I'm @ home after work
Thanks
Thank You, D.J.
It is nice to have a chat engine.
Here are my results so far:
sound is recognized perfectly by the speech recognition engine. But, the chatbot doesn't understand mostly what I say. I guess I have to play with the settings or something. But, the speech engine knows what I am saying. The same sentence is seen as something totally different in the pandorabot box.
weird. But, it is a start.
OK, I understand. I have to train my voice.