Getting started: chatting

Off line

Chatting with a chatbot can be done through the viewer or editor application. Both can be started from the windows-start menu. The software package works like a standard windows app: before you can begin, you need to open a project. For this tutorial, lets use one of the demo projects ‘Name & age’ (located in {my documents}\NND\Demos. After loading, you should see something like the next image:

Lets focus on the chatbot window for this tutorial. It contains a toolbar at the top, to the left, an input box and a conversation history. On the right, you can see the character.
With the toolbar, you can perform the following actions

• Toggle audio output: select if the character speaks (and lip-syncs) the output (you also need to have a voice selected for speech output to work).
• Toggle audio input: turn the mic on or off for using free form speech input. Text will appear in the textbox, you will still need to press enter for sending text.
• Hide/display possible multiple variations that were detected by the speech input system so that you can select the correct one.
• Select the voice used by the character.
• cut, copy or clear the conversation history.
• Select the character
• Change the size of the character
• Make the character free floating on the desktop or dock it in the application

All windows clients have a ‘Stop’ button. This is used to terminate the pattern-matching process, in case that there is an error in the patterns (or code) and the system got stuck in an eternal loop or worse. Normally, you only use this while debugging patterns (and code).

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