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Chatbots

Chatbots
and the uncanny valley of linguistics - Are you interested in chatbots? If so, you are probably familiar with the challenging topic of vocal interaction... As a SoftBank Robotics linguist working on the subject with our robots, I attended a linguistics conference to check the state of the art on this issue. Here’s what I learned there!
2020/02/27
Chatbots
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Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language

Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language
How to install a language package and get speech recognition in new languages - As international talking robots, Pepper and NAO can access many languages for speech recognition, and its management is quite easy. This quick how-to explains how to set up new languages installing a language pack in a few simple steps.
2020/09/30
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Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language
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Conversation

Reference QiChat Language Tutorials
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
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QiChat - Introduction

Topic. A Topic is an object containing rules. Its header contains at least the name of the topic. Example Rule. A Rule associates a Human input (what the human says) with a relevant Robot output (what the robot answers). Delimiters, Special characters and Rule functions and properties allows you to create powerful rules, managing in one line lots of different cases. There are three type of rules: User rule, User subrule and Proposal. Human input. Human input is Part of a User rule or a User subrule delimited by parentheses and containing the message to be recognized by the robot. When the Human input matches, i.e.
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
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QiChat - Syntax

Header keywords. concept. Syntax Where: word1 and word2 are isolated words, “word3 word4” is a phrase, i.e.
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
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Mastering Chat locale

Goal In this tutorial, we will use the Locale in order to change the locale of a Chat. The application will be able to switch the discussion locale between English and Japanese. Warning This tutorial aims to switch locale at the very limited level of the chat. According to your use case, you could prefer to manage the locale more globally, at application level.
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
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QiChatbot – Mastering Dynamic concept

Goal In this tutorial, we will create a dynamic QiChatbot, using Dynamic concepts. For further details, see: QiChat dynamic. Prerequisites Before stepping in this tutorial, you should: Know how to use Android resources. Be familiar with the Action notion. For further details, see: Running Actions on Pepper. Know how to use the QiChatbot. For further details, see: Listen and reply — QiChatbot. Let’s start a new project Start a new project, let’s call it DynamicConceptsPepper. Robotify it and make sure it implements the QiSDK & the Robot Life Cycle. For further details, see: Creating a robot application. Creating the topic file. Create a new topic file named greetings_dynamic.top for the English (en) language. Add the following content to this file: For more details about the syntax, see:
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK