First steps to a chatterbot with AIML

Fri, 01 May 2009 15:53:09 +0000

Intro

Git-Repo with ALICE aiml and minimal python3 aiml bot (not exactly the code from this older post, but very similar)
https://github.com/datenhahn/python-aiml-chatbot .

Who isn’t impressed by all these real cool computers in the sciene fictions movies which can be controlled by voice commands, and which talk back. So am I and I thought about how cool it would be if this would be possible today. Totally aware that this is way out of my skill range I thought about an easier solution to make the computer actually talk to me. Remembering an article about chatterbots I searched a bit the net and found AIML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML ) the “Artificial Intelligence Markup Language”. It’s a xml dialect for creating chatterbot databases. And luckily some programmers already put together some tools. I decided to use “PyAIML” because it seems to be really easy to use. But I can still hear no talking, you think? Just wait a bit, here it comes: espeak. It’s a speech synthesizer which reads out text you pass to it. So let’s get started!

Chatbot on iniy.org

First steps to a chatterbot with AIML

Intro