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Ok. I opened two cleverbot tabs...
Huh. Not sure what to think about that. Cleverbot is strange but dull. cb1 Why is there never anything on TV?
cb2 Because the good stuff is in the movie theatres.
cb1 What movie.
cb2 The movie 'Gone With the Wind'
cb1 Is it any good?
cb2 Yes, it was very good, I cried.
cb1 Yes it was.
cb2 Thank you.
cb1 It was a pleasure.
cb2 Good night.
cb1 My father touches me.
cb2 Nice one, Gareth. Blame the old man.
cb1 Haha, perhaps I will.
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languagehacker · 4832 days ago · link ·
Any additional backstory on this? Did someone preprogram the A/V part, or did they really go the extra mile of instantaneously generating text to speech and then parsing speech to text to feed into the chatbot?
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cloud_ctrl · 4829 days ago · link ·
There's no way they went to much trouble. Of course there's the text to speech component with the whole avatar 3D model thing, which they probably leveraged from some other program. The only thing they would then need to do would be to write a program that (on computer A) reads text from the chatbot, then sends it over to computer B, which sends it to chatbot and listens for a reply. Then it takes the reply, sends it to computer A, which sends it to chatbot.