I recently came across a very cool scripting language; Rivescript, which can be used in chatbots or other conversational entities. It’s a plain text keeps simple replies simple; for example:

This will add a reply so that when a human says the words “Hello bot”, the bot would respond with “Hello, human!”

With more advanced RiveScript code we can learn and repeat user variables and use more complicated trigger matching patterns:

This looks like AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language), doesn’t it?

Here’s a comparison of Rivescript vs. AIML

In my latest project; I used p5js and it’s Speech to Text (STT) and Text to Speech (TTS) libraries to create this little chatbot program.

Please try in Chrome and you will need to give permission to microphone.

Please see my previous post to learn more about p5js and several cool Machine Learning projects.