[Sugar-devel] Sugarizer Activity Set - Speak Activity (vishal.batchu)

[Tony Anderson]

I hope you succeed. Using a browser implementation is excellent. The 
priority is to provide the capability. Performance improvement will follow.

Tony

n 03/24/2016 02:28 PM, Vishal Batchu wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> I took a look at the Java version of the bot but I wanted to ensure 
> that the entire activity is only dependent on the browser and nothing 
> else. So I wanted to use a Javascript implementation of the AIML parser.
> Using this, https://www.npmjs.com/package/aimlinterpreter and making a 
> lot of changes I could get it to work and parse the AIML files and 
> extract the responses in a manner that is similar to the original 
> activity.. The bot now works with the same AIML files that are used in 
> the original activity.
>
> I really like the idea of the user teaching the bot in case the bot 
> does not know the answer. I will definitely add this in the javascript 
> version and maybe also make a PR on the original activity if I 
> implement this feature.
>
> One of the problems that I am currently facing is that Javascript 
> takes longer than Python to load the responses and reply to the user, 
> I will try make it faster maybe by reading the files differently or 
> maybe by doing that parallelly once the activity has started. It 
> currently takes about 2.5-3.5 seconds for the bot to respond to a 
> question.
>
> Thanks,
> Vishal Batchu
> (@erilyth)
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Speak includes implementation of aiml (http://www.alicebot.org).
>     There are several implementations of the engine (e.g. java,
>     python). For Sugarizer, java
>     may be the most relevant unless Vishal wants to undertake a
>     javascript version.
>
>     This is a valuable although overlooked feature. With this feature,
>     Speak can imitate human dialog. AIML provides a way for users to
>     create their own bots.
>     This could be used by students to practice English dialogs or to
>     create a bot in their native language. One technique is to set the
>     default response to 'I don't know what to say about that.' and
>     provide code so that user can enter: say: An appropriate response
>     to the previous entry where the bot treats this as the response to
>     provide to the next time this entry is encountered.
>
>     client: What is your favorite fruit?
>     bot: I don't know what to say about that.
>     client: say: I like apples
>
>     then
>
>     client: What is your favorite fruit?
>     bot: I like apples
>
>     Tony
>
>
>     On 03/23/2016 06:04 AM, Lionel Laské wrote:
>>
>>     Nice first draft Vishal.
>>
>>     BTW it works only on Firefox for me (not on Chrome).
>>
>>     Leave some work for the GSoC :-)
>>
>>             Lionel.
>>
>>     2016-03-21 17:00 GMT+01:00
>>     <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org
>>     <mailto:sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org>>:
>>
>>
>>         Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:35:22 +0530
>>         From: "vishal.batchu" <vishal.batchu at students.iiit.ac.in
>>         <mailto:vishal.batchu at students.iiit.ac.in>>
>>         To: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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>>         <lionel at olpc-france.org <mailto:lionel at olpc-france.org>>
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>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I have started working on the Speak activity port of the
>>         Sugarizer
>>         activity set and have implemented a lot of the basic features
>>         that are
>>         present in the activity.
>>
>>         I have also integrated an AIML parser which will take the
>>         place of the
>>         AI bot.
>>
>>         Could I get a review on the activity and how I need to
>>         improve the
>>         modes (standard speak and the robot modes) I have currently
>>         developed
>>         further? I have not yet worked on the 'Voice Chat' mode, I
>>         will start
>>         working on that soon.
>>         An issue that is currently present is that the mouth stops moving
>>         before the speaking stops for some inputs, I will be fixing
>>         that soon.
>>
>>         Here is a link to the activity I am porting,
>>         http://speak-activity-sugarizer.bitballoon.com/
>>
>>         Thanks!
>>         Vishal Batchu
>>         (@erilyth)
>>
>>
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