We have updated botlibre.com to the Bot Libre 9 prerelease.

Bot Libre 9 includes many new features and enhancements including:

• Discord support
• Instagram support

Bot Libre now allows you to create generic deep learning analytics and train them through our web API. Deep learning analytics can be used for a wide array of purposes to analyze and make predications on data. This example shows how to train a deep learning analytic to play checkers.

You can use either the Bot Libre deep learning library, or the TensorFlow deep learning library. You can choose the inputs, outputs, and layers.

You can host your own server running the Bot Libre platform using Amazon EC2. Bot Libre provides a free AMI (Amazon Machine Image) that makes it easy to install and configure the open source Bot Libre Community Edition platform.

The EC2 instance can be launched from either the AWS Marketplace page or the EC2 page.

We have released Bot Libre 8!

Bot Libre allows a bot to be connected to email. This lets you create a bot to be your first tier of support or customer service for your business. The bot can answer common user questions and differ more difficult questions to your second tier support. Connecting a bot to email can also be used to let your bot send email notification from scripting, such as when a user wishes to escalate an issue from live chat. Email also provides a novel way to let people interact with your bot.

Bot Libre 7 adds support for using Regular Expressions in patterns, templates, and scripts.

Regular Expressions, or Regex defines a pattern syntax for parsing text. Unlike AIML and Bot Libre patterns Regex patterns are character based, not word base, so can match specific types of words and word sequences such as numbers, dates, times, currency, and others.

For example, the following regex matches a number,

Bot Libre now offers courses and education on bots and artificial intelligent technology.

You can take the "Introduction to Bot Libre" course for free and be guided through the course by our bot instructor.

The Bot Libre platform is not just a bot platform, but also a platform for artificial intelligence and deep learning. With Bot Libre you can create your own deep learning neural network for image recognition, audio and speech recognition, object detection, games, prediction, data analysis, and more.

IBM Watson is a brand that includes a set of products and services, made famous by its Jeopardy prowess. Watson includes a chatbot platform and conversational API.

Bot Libre now supports creating and hosting Deep Learning and Analytic services.

Deep Learning and Analytic services are different than bots, as they perform a specific analysis function. They do not chat, nor interact with users, but use artificial intelligence and deep learning to perform analysis such as classifying images, recognizing speech or faces, performing NLP functions, playing games, and analyzing data.

Bot Libre 6.5 added support for define isolated conversation flows through using the response "Next" elements.

The next is a follow-up question that the user might ask after the bot gives the response. For example, if you had a response to the question "help" as "Do you want help with web or mobile?", then if the user responded with "web", that would be a follow-up question.

Through Bot Libre, you can now add a bot or live chat widget to your Wordpress website. A chatbot allows you to provide automated chat or customer service to your website. You can also connect to your live chat channel as an operator and respond to your user live on your website. Bot Libre also allows an automated bot agent to be connected to your live chat channel to respond to your users when you are unavailable.

The Bot Libre Android SDK makes it easy to develop your own chat bot app, or add a chat bot to your own app. You can create an app for your business, or to make money from mobile ads and upgrades, or just for fun.

Bot Libre Desktop is the desktop version of the Bot Libre platform for your PC or Mac.

Bot Libre Desktop lets you create your own personal AI bot on your own computer. The bot is stored offline locally on your own computer without limits, and with complete privacy.

Bot Libre now supports bot analytics and charts for chat and social media. Analytics provide statistical data on how well your bot is performing, including analytics such as engaged conversations, user sentiment, and response confidence.

Bot Libre now supports timers. Timers let your bot perform automated tasks on a scheduled basis. You can use timers to have your bot followup with users on Facebook and social media on a daily or scheduled basis, create mailing lists, generate daily reports, and automate web scraping or other tasks.

The Bot Libre Cloud Bot Platform lets you license the Bot Libre bot platform for your own server and clients.

You can add a command to any Question and Response from the "Training & Chat Logs" page in your bot's Admin Console, or by importing a response list file of commands from the "Training & Chat Logs" page. 

Bots can do more than just chat. They can book appointments, service calls, meetings, send emails, and SMS messages.

Bot Libre has support for connecting your bot to Google Calendar to access your schedule and book appointments. To connect your bot to Google Calendar go to your bot's "Google" page in its "Admin Console".

It is no longer sufficient for a business to only connect with their customers on their website. Customers now use a variety of different messaging and social media platforms, and expect to be able to connect with businesses through social media. If your business is not on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, or other platforms you are missing engaging with your customers.

Bot Libre now supports integrating with XML and JSON web services, HTML scraping, and access to Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, email, and other services. From our scripting languages Self, and AIML you can now access any web service that returns XML or JSON data. You can also scrape information from HTML web pages, and send emails, tweets, Facebook posts, Telegram posts, and more.

Web Services

A virtual agent is a term typically used to describe a type of chat bot used for business.

A virtual agent could be a virtual sales agent, a virtual customer service agent, or another type of virtual agent. A virtual agent is an automated version of a human customer service agent.

Through Bot Libre, you can now send and receive SMS messages with your own bot

Keeping up with social media and keeping your online community engaged can be a time consuming task. Through Bot Libre you can now automate your Facebook presence with your own Facebook Messenger bot. Any Bot Libre bot can be connected to a Facebook Messenger page account. The bot will reply to your users questions in real-time using the responses of script you have trained your bot with.

Keeping up with social media and keeping your online community engaged can be a time consuming task. Through Bot Libre you can now automate your Facebook presence with your own Facebook bot. Any Bot Libre bot can be connected to a Facebook account or Facebook page. The bot will manage the Facebook account or page, checking timeline status updates, replying to page posts, auto posting your blog posts or RSS feed, and auto posting timed or generated posts.

Bot Libre supports a diverse set of features for creating and training your bots. Today we will discuss the Training & Chat Logs feature, and how to create and train a customer service bot using the Training & Chat Logs page. The Training & Chat Logs page provides the best way to monitor and train your bot, by letting you see its conversations and let you correct its responses. No scripting or programming is required.

Keeping up with social media and keeping your online community engaged can be a time consuming task

Bot Libre allows anyone to create their own chat bot, or virtual agent for free, including free hosting, even for commercial bots.

You can create your own bot, and embed it on your own website, mobile app, or integrate with your social media. You can create bots for fun, for business, for customer support, or for someone to talk to.