Aimlbot

Dear author of this plug in......I'm trying to run two instances of AIMLBot on separate ARCs on the same computer. They both seem to share the same config folder and settings files. Is there a way to load different setting files for each instance?

No, you can only have one configuration folder and therefore only one configuration. Every instance of ARC will use the same configuration files.

I can modify it to load the configuration from a folder that you specific - if that’s what you require?

I think this would be a good inclusion. If you ran many robots from a single computer, you could have all of their AIMLBot responses different, giving the illusion of separate personalities. By having different folders, its less likely to have a situation where you could accidentally overwrite the setting file.

I too would appreciate this option. While I don't run multiple instances at the same time I do have different projects on my windows tablet that would benefit from having different AIML files.

Okay - I’ll think of something over the weekend

Is the source code available for this one?

I can post it tonight when I’m in front of a pc for ya

That would be awesome! Thanks.

You can now specify the folder for the configuration files. The new folder requires the AIML and CONFIG folders from the plugin folder to be copied.

The source code is available as well - in the description of the plugin

Thank you! This will come in very handy for many of us.

Excellent stuff, thank you!

Is there a way to save information from a session? For example if I tell the bot my name it remembers it for that session but when I exit and restart it's back to unnamed user.

Not presently. You can edit the config files to set default values. Perhaps I can add ControlCommand() that allows you to set values. That way you can save them with the project to a text file or something.

Ok, I can manually edit the file. That's the only thing I miss from my robot lab, the program ab chatbot. But Synthiam is far better at everything else.

@danf - that's an easy fix - i can just add that functionality. Another reason we're better is we'll make changes based on user feedback. I forgot about my robot lab, is that still around?

MRL is still around. Focusing on Inmoov as always. Their AIML implementation of ProgramAB is really good. ProgramAB operates against the AIML 2.0 standard though which offers a lot more possibilities. Synthiam (you) could reproduce all that or figure out a way to adopt and upgrade to the 2.0 standard. Putting bandaids on 1.0 which is no longer supported does not seem the way to go.

The Pandorabots plugin is 1.0 as well while their site has moved on to 2.0. We are using a legacy backdoor. I had asked previously and you investigated and there was some reason that it was not easy to do. I can't remember what that was. Would be nice though.

I started building a chatbot using Pandorabot 2.0.  Is it possible to import some of the AIML files from it to use with AimlBot?

Sorry for the newbie question. If I edit the config file to make my own questions and responses and save it, will it be stored for the future?

Also, is it possible to talk the bot verbally and teach it things. For example your name is max and then it remembers it?

Olá, Como configurar o AimlBot e existe um vídeo explicativo sobre este plugin?

Sorry, i don't think there is an explanation video for the plug-in. I looked but I couldn't find one.

what files do I modify / edit to make my own responses in aiml.Bot?

EZang60 - The plugin manual explains the button and how to access the files..

Hi Justin

This is EZAng

The new EZ program ARC

The audio answers AIML works well

thanks

EZAng, this aiml plugin does not speak and never has. You need to create a new question for help on how to program your robot

Hi EzAng, I have not experimented with AIML in while.  I'm not sure I'm the best person to help on this.  Can you explain more about the issue you are having?

I got everything working

My AIML Bot works just like Pandora Bot -  I ask questions, get audio answers

I added more AIML bot code also

Here is what I did:

Bing Speech control add:

ControlCommand("AimlBot", "SetPhrase", $BingSpeech)

Aiml control add

java Audio.say(getVar("$BotResponse"));

Above works with PC

Audio.sayEZB(getVar("$BotResponse"));

Above works with ez -robot

now it works, trial and error, happy I learned perseverance a long time ago :-)

thanks

Latest update (v16) checks if the config directory exists. If not, it defaults to the plugin folder config.

I do have C:\ProgramData\ARC\Plugins

I made a folder in my C:\Users\angbe\Documents\ARC\Plugins (I made the Plugins folder)  and copied all the plugin files in there, it works now

That’ll break it in the future. My instructions were correct. I didn’t ask if you had the folder. The instructions were to select that folder as the configuration. See my screenshot vs yours.

my advise is to delete the new folder you created and update the plugin. The new plugin will auto adjust to the correct folder.

ok I will try that

I deleted the folder as you stated, closed the program, then re-started it, installed it Aiml again,  and no luck, I will reboot and come back,

Still does not work

When I go to shut the program, it freezes all the time

all good now!!

fixed the code

thanks

Hi DJ,

First of all I have been using this with Bing for a while now and it works great! Thank you for all your work! It is absolutely wonderful! Leaving behind the original windows speech recognition is FANTASTIC. Windows was wrong much more than it was ever right. Also, I finally started to customize my AIML files--and that's a whole lot of work!

1. Now my first question is this, when I "say(...)" every line that is returned from aimlbot, aimlbot sometimes gives me a ":-)" and of course that is not pronounced correctly. Any suggestions on how to get rid of smilies before they get to "say(...)"?

2. Is there any way to have the robot ask for my name at the beginning of the aiml session?

Thanks.

Thomas

PS. is it A.R.C. or ARC like Noah's Ark?

I deleted all of the :-). That worked for me. Editing a set of AIML files is quite time consuming.

Hi, When I SEARCH on some text, I get a windows error message.

1. Go to aimlbot / settings window
2. enter "dj" into the text field.
3. click the "Search" button

Expected: file opens for editing. Actual: Windows error message states, "Windows can't open this type of file (.aiml)"

Hmmm...it works for me, it gives me this pop-up:

The problem seems to be on your end, maybe do try to set the default program that opens .aiml to Notepad. Right-click on an .aiml file and select "open with" then "choose another app" and then select the checkbox to "Always open with this app" and then select Notepad to open it.

Yeah, that looks like the problem. I needed to set the default application to open AIML files. I picked "notebook" although It isn't great.

It seams that aimlbot needs a manual all for itself.

And that "Gaitobot", I can't seem to get it working right. I have yet to be able to create and edit an AIML file. I have been messing with it for over an hour with out any success.  It just gives me all sorts of errors. And the help files were not much help either.

I'm not sure what Notebook is but Windows Notepad is a classic text editor that you can't go wrong with.

AIML isn't something Synthiam developed, rather we support it. AIML is a rather large topic and while we can offer a quick way to access .aiml files we can't support the format itself here. If you are new to AIML I would recommend that you browse around the web and get more acquainted with it.

Gaitobot actually has a very comprehensive getting started tutorial, have you seen it:  https://www.gaitobot.de/gaitobot/AIMLEditor/Tutorials/en/GaitoBot_Tutorial_0001.htm

I use editPad lite  for AIMLbot files and other files

https://www.editpadlite.com/download.html

EzAng

Is it possible to embed ARC code into the AIML files? Could I run a motor from AIML? If so, what would be the syntax?

Does anyone know if it is possible to do math within aiml code?

DJ,

Did you implement XFIND in your aimlbot?

Thomas Messerschmidt

The manual above explains how to include code in the aiml. Scroll up and check the manual for all the informations

New issue: I updated AIMLBot on Sunday and it appears that it overwrote all of my AIML files. Is there any way to prevent that? I lost a lot of work.

Hi there, your comment has been responded to in one of your other threads here: https://synthiam.com/Community/FeatureRequests/Option-to-Reject-or-Postpone-Updates-20094

*Note: make a copy of the AIML files if you will be making modifications to them. The files may be overwritten during robot skill updates. Here's a video explaining how to make a copy of the default files into a new folder so you can edit them.

This skill has been updated to include a message in the Config dialog about backing up the AIML & Config folders to a personalized location on your hard drive. I advise backing up your config files before updating to this version.

Thanks for letting me know DJ.

Seems the editor instructions/tutorials are all flash based and no longer work on their site.

Aimlbot doesn’t have a website. It’s a local application and doesn’t require an internet connection.

Quote:

Seems the editor ....

I want to add AIML code dynamically, that is asking my robot to learn new AIML data and then use that data without reloading the AIML configuration manually. Is there anyway to "load AIML configuration" programically? While it is quite easy to add a line of text to an AIML file, I have found no way to restart the AimlBot skill so that it loads my new AIML code.

That can be done.

please do not double post. Other post was deleted.

OK. thanks for letting me know.

Added Reload Config button and ControlCommand for reloading the config programmatically

Thanks DJ! The button works PERFECTLY! I haven't tried using the command programmatically yet.

So this is really cool. Still I want to dynamically add to an AIML file and use the newly added code right away. But I can't because the new line of code is placed at the end of the file--after the "</aiml> tag which breaks AIMLBot requiring me to manually move the tag. I know I could probably read, store, and rewrite the entire existing AIML file into memory, delete the </aiml> tag, add the new code, and finally place the tag at the end of the file, but does anyone have a better idea?

My code:

saywait("When you hear the beep please add new input.")
sleep(2000)

saywait("beep")
sleep(200)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StartListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "UnpauseListening")
sleep(3000)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "PauseListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StopListening")
sleep(2000)
$sAIMLInput = $BingSpeech

saywait("New input was learned.")

sleep(2000)
saywait("When you hear the beep please add new output.")
sleep(2000)

$bLearnAIML = true
saywait("beep")
sleep(200)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StartListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "UnpauseListening")
sleep(3000)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "PauseListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StopListening")
sleep(2000)
$sAIMLOutput = $BingSpeech
saywait("New output was learned.")



$sAIMLLineOfCode = ""+ $sAIMLInput + "  " + $sAIMLOutput + " "

print($sAIMLLineOfCode) 

FileWriteLine("c:/AIMLCode.aiml",$sAIMLLineOfCode)
saywait("New AIML was added to the file")

Hi Tom, I re- worked my AIML code this morning and tried you script, it does add responses.

EzAng

Ez, I have a new bit of code that creates a new file each time with the <aim> tags as needed. It also allows multiple "categories" to be added. I will try to post it into a tutorial. I didn't have much luck with the tutorial last time. I couldn't make it "public." Otherwise, I'll put the code here tomorrow.

Again, I had no luck in making a tutorial, so here is my updated code. It also allows multiple "categories" to be added and then reloads the configuration so that the new AIML can be used without stopping your robot. Each time it is invoked it creates a new aiml file (complete with the start and stop tags) with a unique name so that it doesn't overwrite any existing ones.

make sure to customize your $AIMLPath variable so that it points to your aiml file.

#say("Starting A I M L learning")

##SoundNote("c2",2000)
$UniqueTime = $year + "." + $month + "." + $day + "-" + $hour + "." + $minute + "." + $second
$AIMLPath = "C:\Users\Thomas\Documents\AIML_Simone\aiml"
$AIMLFilename = $AIMLPath + "\0AIMLCode" + $UniqueTime + ".aiml"
print($AIMLFilename)

FileWriteLine($AIMLFilename,"")

$bLearningAIML = true

:AddNewAIML


#################  ADD INPUT  ###############
saywait("When you hear the beep please add new input.")
sleep(1000)

saywait("beep")
sleep(200)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StartListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "UnpauseListening")
sleep(3000)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "PauseListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StopListening")
#sleep(2000)
$sAIMLInput = $BingSpeech
print($BingSpeech)
saywait("New input was learned.")


#################  ADD OUTPUT  ###############
sleep(2000)
saywait("When you hear the beep please add new output.")
sleep(1000)

$bLearnAIML = true
saywait("beep")
sleep(200)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StartListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "UnpauseListening")
sleep(3000)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "PauseListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StopListening")
sleep(2000)
$sAIMLOutput = $BingSpeech
saywait("New output was learned.")
print("Heard:" + $BingSpeech)

$sAIMLLineOfCode = ""+ $sAIMLInput + "  " + $sAIMLOutput + " "
print($sAIMLLineOfCode) 

FileWriteLine($AIMLFilename,$sAIMLLineOfCode)
saywait("New AIML was added to the file")
sleep(1000)


############  DOES USER WANT TO ADD MORE?  #############
saywait("do you want to add another category?")
sleep(1000)

saywait("beep")
sleep(200)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StartListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "UnpauseListening")
sleep(2000)
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "PauseListening")
controlCommand("Bing Speech Recognition", "StopListening")
sleep(1000)
$sAnotherYesNo = $BingSpeech
print("Heard:" + $BingSpeech)

if($sAnotherYesNo = "Yes")
  goto(AddNewAIML)
endif 
print("Heard:" + $BingSpeech)


############  FINALIZE AND WRITE NEW FILE  ##############
sleep(1000)
saywait("Finalizing A I M L document.")



FileWriteLine($AIMLFilename,"")
sleep(2000)
controlCommand("AimlBot", "ReloadConfig")

saywait("The new A I M L file is ready to use.")

$bLearningAIML = false

@Thomas, is there any instructions anywhere on the web how to use the editor. thanks in advance.

Google gave me this: https://www.gaitobot.de/home/GetStarted

that's about all i can find

Thanks DJ,  Looks like it;s German, I think I get the jest of it.

I noticed that as well - it's not very well documented. It would be nice to find a manual for it. I thought there was a webpage or some help file included with the program? Is there anything in the installation folder?

v21 has been updated

• new ControlCommand added that allows specifying "memory" values of the current session programatically. For example, you can set the user's name with

ControlCommand("AimlBot", "SetValue", "name", "Mr Bob");

And when the chatbot is asked "What Is My Name?", the chatbot will respond with the name.

• There is a new option to view all memory settings

  

All settings and their values will be displayed....

Is it possible to save customized AIML files with a project when uploading to Synthiam's cloud?

Not at the moment - it is a third-party engine that uses its files with the extension aiml that aren't part of the project. I believe the robot skill could somehow be modified to include the files, but it would take significant development effort to modify the third-party aiml engine.

I don't think you follow me. I mean that I have configured some 100 different AIML files for my Simone project. When I save the project, I want those AIML files saved WITH the project. That way, when people download my project, they get the AIML files as well. You allow saving of a servo profile, perhaps you can save the AIML files somewhere on your cloud. Maybe if they were zipped up into a single file. Otherwise I will have to use Google Drive, GitHub or some other similar file sharing service. Thoughts?

I did follow you. My response is still the same. A project file and 100 individual random files are different. Being that the aimlbot is a 3rd party engine, it’s not designed to load data from an ARC project file. It doesn’t know what an ARC project file is. It knows it’s files. So significant development effort would be required to rewrite the 3rd party robot skill to somehow load and save data from a project file or a cloud.

I understand the complexity of having AimlBot load the AIML files itself. I agree that would probably be a lot of work.

But how about if you were to allow us to store a single extra file with the project file. That would be a bunch of AIML files all zipped together. Then the users would download both the project file and the zipped AIML files. And then the users would be required to manually unzip the file and put the individual files into the proper directory.  This way, there is no rewriting the skill, just allowing an extra file to be stored and downloaded with the project file. Yes? No?

Again, the engine is a 3rd party product. We’d need to coordinate to have that feature added. I have not said it couldn’t be done. It will require significant development effort and it would have to be added to their development scope. It’s just not something that could be added right away. It would take some planning and discussion but it can be done