Cheshire: A New Believable Chat Bot Using AIML, LSA, Emotions from Personalities, and Voice Recognition and Synthesizer

Abstract

Since the 1950s, people have been trying to create a more believable chatbot. The Standard Turing Test (STT) has generally been used to test them. Development of chatbot initiated with pattern recognition with Eliza in 1966 and PARRY in 1972, further with AI by Jabberwacky, and AIML with ALICE in 1995. Since then, people have tried adding nonverbal features, personalities, and audio input and output features. The goal of this research is to use these advancements to create a chatbot believable enough to pass the STT. To do this in a different way than most other chatbots, this new chatbot will use AIML with LSA to generate a response, derive and use the emotional ton of the user input along with a selected personality to apply an emotional ton to the response, and provide a means for the user to talk to the chatbot and for the chatbot to talk back.