You too 8pla. Best wishes for the contest.

Are you by any chance the same Thomas from Vermont who has been putting Mitsuku through her paces for the last few weeks? If so, your input has been invaluable.

Please talk off the board so I don’t lose my gig in Vermont.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64SXRvhPVhA

It may be, Tom, that Vira can’t handle the quotation marks. Judging from what I see here, this seems to be the most likely case. I’m not 100% certain, though. Definitely worth looking into, though.

That’s it Dave!  Good catch.  Thank you. You really know your stuff. I just rebuilt this chatter robot’s presentation, middleware and database tiers from scratch from a few open source A.I. packages.  Hopefully, I can get most of the kinks out before the contest judges make their rounds.  Gosh, it’s contest time already, and me and Vira got so much training left to do!  Thanks for helping so much.

  You ► What does “transliteration”  mean?
Vira ► Mean ... To have in the mind as a purpose intention etc to intend to purpose to design as what do you mean to do .... 

( Vira can’t read inside the quotation marks. )

  You ► What does transliteration mean?
Vira ► Transliteration ... The act or product of transliterating or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet .... 

( Note: I edited these responses to the pertinent parts, to keep the post shorter . )

Ah ha!  ... I have to pad the quotation marks like punctuation…  So, “transliteration” should be ” transliteration ” for processing… So, if you see Vira handling quotation marks, that means we fixed it… Wish us luck.

Oh and for the record, I am going to be getting back to Daisy’s topic about the forumbot on punBB, which is a very nice forum package. So, please continue Daisy, if you read this.  You contributed a good topic about punBB forumbot, and I hope you find these last few posts indirectly related to advanced AIML.  Steve, and Dave are advanced AIML experts.

UPDATE (Still got 4 minutes on the clock):  It works!  Padding the quotation marks worked.

Glad I could help, Sir.

PunBB forumbot

light weight forum robot with limited responses

http://8-i.us/punBB/

This forum robot is only 25 lines of all original code and data.
Designed with 3 records of data in its very small robot brain.

wow .. u did that already!
I’m completely lost in that php code.
Can u tell me how did u integrate that chatter bot?
If possible point me to only those files which i need to modify or if u are free then explain me the whole process
Greatly appreciate your help

I also found couple of other methods to automate AIML generation process and its more confusing now.

charlix.sourceforge.net/reversedaiml.html

please enlighten me!

The reversed AIML is a set of files that will automatically create categories based on input. For example:

input: John dreams about Jane

will create:
What does John dream about
Who does John dream about
Who dreams about Jane
Does John dream about Jane

and so on.

I am requesting the approval procedure for a punBB mod:

http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/144265/#p144265

Daisy,

I’ll do my best to keep this active, moving at a steady pace.
First step is to go through the proper channels with punBB.

For the sake of A.I. history, I would like to claim official
credit for creating the first punBB forumbot, if that is so.
A punBB dev team may also assist with testing and debugging.

NOTE: Presently, the Loebner Prize Competition must take
precedence, due to the tight deadline.  But please stay tuned.

8PLA • NET,

To be honest , I’m not worried about recognition or who did that first(Ofcourse u did it first and credit will go to you,no question about that ).
I’m more concerned about my project and its completion.Possibly our final product may quite differ.
If u find little time , please try to guide us with integration of forum bots as previously requested.(perhaps ftp readonly access to those files..i’ll help out myself).

And Very best of luck for Loebner Prize Competition

Honesty is good, and no worries intended. Official credit, for a forumboticist, is an important record to keep for those doing research on forumbots.  These projects tend to generate great interest, and last years.

Checkout this 24 page long thread after I introduced the first forumbot on phpBB version 3:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=908555 
(People tend to go nuts over forumbots.)

UPDATE: The punBB forumbot has evolved at http://8-i.us/punBB , and is now a registered member of the forum with moderator privileges gathering statistics about it’s forum usage.

UPDATE:  The forumbot probe has completed its mission and has been taken out of service in good standing.  In phase II training continues as the punBB forumbot evolves to greater intelligence in the punBB forum threads with a fork of Elizabeth Perreau’s Program O AIML interpreter.

Citations:
http://alicebot.blogspot.com/2009/01/program-o.html
http://blog.program-o.com
http://www.mitsuku.com

Hi,
Its been a while…and srry I failed to update my progress status up here but well my project is almost complete (well not exactly as proposed..we had to sliced it down n made it managable )
But now im facing a small problem with tts.As an added functionality we tried to use ‘Festival tts’ to generate .wav files for our bot response(yes we are using program O as our base bot).It works absolutely fine when tried with php-cli (or executing single test.php file from shell something like $php5 test.php .. script is able to generate .wav files ).
But when I tried the same page from LAMPP software stack, i cant execute it(I cant execute the “festival part” of that script).
I’m able to execute other basic shell commands like pwd ,date,whoami..etc

I used some what modified version of php script from this website
http://www.xenocafe.com/tutorials/php/festival_text_to_speech/index.php

Are there some access related issues with php ( cause im able to execute DATE (like exec(DATE)) command but not FESTIVAL tts :(  )?

Or are there any better alternatives for TTS.. as far as they are free /open and easier to use

Also how good is Sphinx STT(speech to text) , has anyone tried or worked on it? Also tried (MS Speech SDK 5.1) which just sucks a lot…

Is your project intended to be web-based Text To Speech (over the internet)?

Here is some web-based TTS research I am having fun with…

http://8-i.us/voicebox/

It is not high quality, but low quality TTS is similar technically to hi quality TTS.

Even it is does not sound as good. For example, Festival supports low quality

TTS and hi quality TTS.  What you learn from one can be used for the other.