Chatbotmaker Alternatives

Chatbotmaker

Chatbotmaker.com is a place to chat with conversational robots called chatbots. The chatbots on this system are speech recognition enabled for Chrome users. Apart from just being a fun way to meet new people, Chatbotaker.com can help learners of English as a Second language practice their pronunciation and listening skills.

Chatbotmaker was created to answer a pedagogical problem. Typically, English language learners are given only limited opportunities for communicative conversation practice during class time. So, we asked the simple question, “How can we give our students speaking practice outside of the classroom?” The answer, we think, is to combine Chrome’s robust speech recognition engine with the webcam on your computer to create and converse with speech-recognition-enabled chatbots. Since chatbots will never get angry or tired or bored, they present an excellent opportunity for learners to practice conversations in the target language.

What’s a chatbot? A chatbot is an artificial conversation partner. Early versions were simple desktop programs that would respond to text input with either a text answer or another question to simulate chatroom-like exchanges. The conversations, though impressive from a programming perspective, were tedious and annoying. Later chatbots have used animated avatars and text-to-speech engines to create computer mediated conversations with artificially intelligent characters. While somewhat more realistic than earlier versions, these speech-enabled chatbots are never as engaging as real conversations with real people.

Chatbotmaker chatbots are different in that regard. There is no artificial intelligence at work here. Our chatbots capture human intelligence and human personalities by providing a platform for users’ video recorded answers to a range of standard conversation questions. In short, your chatbot is a canned version of you.

All you have to do is record your answers to the Chatbotmaker’s questions using your webcam, an