[misterhouse-users] MS Agents user interface : Again

[Robert R. <ro...@fr...>]

Hello,

I'm including two scripts that implement friendly user interface (mainly for
computer starters) through MS Agents. This is just a start - scripts need a
lot of polishing. The reason I'm making them public is to get some opinions
and maybe some help in enhancing the system.

I guess that maybe the best solution would be to integrate MS Agents
(www.microsoft.com/msagent/) into mh's main speak function - adding some
additional directives ??

I'd also like to have possibility to override original speak function with
user customized version, that could call 'speak' from itself. In this way
adding this kind of additions wouldn't be too hard.

I'm currently also testing some possibilities to give some intelligence to
those characters (Eliza, Hal ultra assistant, CU communicator, ALICE chat
bot free AIML system ...). I'd really like to have more spontaneous chat
with Misterhouse (something less strict than Voice commands). We could
provide house informations in data files that could be read by AI chat bot.

Hope that someone else will find those guys amusing.

P.S.: Is there any alternative to this under Linux ? I'd like to have it
when I switch to real OS...

Regards,

Robert Rozman