Rosie Bot

[SierraKen]

Hi all. I decided to play around with the Microsoft Windows text-to-speech stuff some more by making a simple chat bot that I named Rosie. There's a few questions that Rosie answers and I also decided to add a .txt file for the user to be able to make their own bot by adding as many questions and answers as they wish. To do that, simply type: add, or addon, or add question and it will go to that mode. It's not perfect of course and I haven't tested it fully, like if someone adds a question that it already has (either in the botaddon file or internally in the bot) but I'm guessing it would just answer with both answers, possibly speaking both at the same time. If that happens, or any other botaddon.txt problem, just open up the .txt file with Notepad and carefully erase the --- line above it, the question, and the answer. I will put all of this in the comments section of the code at the start so programmers know. But have fun with it, that's why I made it. :) Also tell me what you think. Thanks.

The 2 files are zipped in Rosie Bot.zip and placed in the attachments of this post. Put these 2 files in the same folder.

Edit: Attachment deleted, please see the replies below to get the newest one.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

Speaking of text to speech, I wonder if you can access the new natural voices in Windows 11 through the command line. The new voices sound really good

[bplus]

@SierraKen  have you ever experienced a chat with ELIZA?

Rosie: "Sorry I do not understand."

ELIZA never says sorry. But if you say it, Eliza has a choice of these r=responses to that k=key word:

r:Please don't apologize!
r:Apologies are not necessary.
r:What feelings do you have when you apologize?
r:Don't be so defensive!
k:sorry

[SierraKen]

ROFL that's a funny bot. I've never used it before. I'm sure many people have made chat bots, probably even on this forum, but I wanted to add text to speech for a new dimension in chatting. :) Of course mine can't carry on conversations like Eliza can, it only does a few questions and answers them. I might add more to it sometime soon. Thanks for showing me.

[bplus]

Yeah Ron took the Player code and added a script for Racheal and gave it/her a voice, much like Rosie's:

[SierraKen]

That's really cool, has lots of potential, thanks B+.

[bplus]

Yeah the player spots a keyword like sorry or no or you and has several responses loaded to reply to that keyword plus the code parses what you said around the keyword so that reply looks natural using some of your own words in it.

Then it has generic responses if it doesn't find a key word eg "Please elaborate on that." wait, Eliza never says please. LOL

[SierraKen]

Right now I am almost finished changing the bot by removing all of the internal questions (besides the first one and the quit, etc. ones) and putting them all on the botaddon.txt file. That way it can scan them every time someone wants to add one to the file with the bot to see if it's already there first.

[bplus]

Gotta say, I think you are giving yourself allot of work. It's hard to match a question worded perfectly.

Perhaps single word commands for Rosie to do like do calculations, tell time and date, lookup phone numbers, take notes, make lists, lookup other things, play music, show pictures... be like a secretary or PA.

[SierraKen]

Yeah I might make something like that someday. But right now this is just Rosie, my first bot. :) I'm adding more to the txt file right now manually. :)

[Pete]

I hope you didn't base it on Rosie O'Donnell. If you did, I will have to get back to programming and create the Donald bot, which will be the biggest most linguistically proficient bot ever made, and will kick Rosie's ASCII back to the empty screen.

Pete :D

[SierraKen]

No Pete I did not. In fact I added some questions regarding politics and it answers with: "I do not do politics."
I added some more questions and the time and date to it, thanks to B+'s idea. Pretty much all of the questions (except the first one, date, time, and quit) are on the botaddons.txt file. Feel free to open the file with Notepad and check them out. If you add any manually, make sure and add the: --- above each question (but not the answer). It's easier to add questions and answers from within the bot by typing: add
I also added a way for it to detect any +,-,*, or / in the question with a reply saying: I do not do math.
Also with B+'s idea, I removed a lot of the "Sorry" replies.

Here is the zip file of the 2 files. I will delete the original one above. Thanks for checking it out and feel free to add anything you wish.

[Pete]

Thanks for the rapid reply. So far, all I coded was the RGB values for orange, and of course now I have to pull what little of the bot I got started on out of the tanning booth.

Pete