AIM Eliza bot, Festival plugin for Gaim

jjohn on 2000-10-05T15:23:17

eisen writes "I just posted an article at Mother of Perl on a couple hacks I whipped up that have no practical value whatsoever. I've been reluctantly using the Linux AIM instant messenger (Gaim) to communicate with co-workers. While I think IMs are lame compared to IRC, it was fun to hack up an Eliza bot using the Chatbot::Eliza and Net::AIM modules. The second script I hacked was a Perl plugin for Gaim that pipes incoming messages to the Festival voice synthesizer which is very cool IMHO."

Soon, there will be entire robot communities chatting away bandwidth better used to serve their masters' pr0n ...


I wish I could vet better

jjohn on 2000-10-08T20:11:32

Soon, there will be entire robot communities chatting away bandwidth better used to serve their masters pr0n...

Ought to read:

Soon there will be entire robot communities chatting away bandwidth better used to serve their masters' p0rn...