Anni stands for Artificial Neural Network Intelligence and was based in first versions on a three layer perceptron – a special type of a feedforward artificial neural network – to find appropriate responses. These experiments failed and the algorithm was changed.

The current version does not use artificial neural networks anymore, but instead searches for similarities of the user's input in a database consisting of various chat logs to find a reasonable response. Furthermore this enables Anni to speak in several languages like English as well as German in the current version.

A nice collection of French chatterbots here.

French Chatbot. An open source interpreter of a custom script language dedicated to chatterbot-making, Genesis is one example here.

[Ep: Latent Image] The Doctor has reached a point in his personal development where he deserves the chance to evolve beyond the constraints of his program - and by extension, his very nature as a piece of technology. [Source: Wikipedia]

"Visual Recognition is a spin-off company of the ISLA Laboratory at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Visual Recognition can also provide scientific consultancy on topics in the field of computer vision with an emphasis on colour; applications are: Object recognition, video retreival. Another area of expertise is human-computer interaction, with applications in: Eye tracking, head-pose estimation, and voice-mood recognition."

"Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of VBScript."

ShakespeareBot is an interactive chatbot designed to assist in the learning of the life and works of William Shakespeare. As well as chat, ShakespeareBot can do image requests, multimedia, files, glossary functions, relate play information and more. ShakespeareBot is powered by Program O.

Morti is a chat bot that "lives" in pChat, a chat room script written by Dave Morton of Geek Cave Creations. Based initially on both the ALICE Annotated AIML set, and Program O, both have been heavily modified with the intended goal of creating a more robust bot. Morti has several built in features, such as Google, Wiki and ask.com searches, and other features are either planned, or in development.

Mylene is a logical chatterbot who is able to learn new facts and perform logical reasoning. I started programming Mylene in 2006 and I continue to improve it. Mylene's brain is developed in C++.

A software application to design and debug resonating neural networks with. It provides several structured designers as well as a thesaurus, import/export capabilities and advanced debug tools. Also see : Jan Bogaerts' Blog