I would like to have my own voice respond to me true a chatbot.
I have found a lot of tutorials on chatbot's. just non of them tell me how to intergrade my own voice.
Someone with tips?
https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-make-computer-voices-like-Siri-or-Google-Now/answer/Marcus-L-Endicott
I've answered a question on Quora about this, including links to videos about Susan Bennett and Roger Ebert.
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I installed Contact form 7 in my wordpress blog and there are several spam messages coming through it. Then I added really simple captcha/ recaptcha for the form. But still the spam messages are getting submitted.
How can I block this? Please help me.
Thanks in advance.
There are a lot of papers and works related to spam blocking. For example, you can ask easy questions, like 2+7 instead of captcha but i dont know how powerful is that now, because spammers are also improving themselves.
You can also block by looking at their behaviour, for example, spambot enters to your website, and after one-two second it sends its spam to your website, this is not human behaviour, so dont allow that post.
You can search on google about that and I'm sure you can find a lot of stuff related to it
As I said, there is a lot of research going on in this issue, you can use google scholars too
Also this question looks similar to your question.
You can try to use the honeypot plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-honeypot/ (Note: I haven't tested it, but I use a similar functionality in Gravity Forms, and it works great!).
Make sure to activate the Akismet plugin. It will help capture a good deal of the spam that gets through your forms.
I would also advice to use at least a combination of Captcha and Akismet like Bill already mentioned. You can find a very good tutorial on this topic at http://cool-tricks.net/contact-form-7-configuration/
I have been tasked with creating a infosite for people with varying degrees of learning difficulty.
I was wondering if anyone knew of any really good guides, tutorials or places to get advice regarding the issue.
In addition to resources mentioned in other answers, here are some that I refer to:
The W3C's Web Accessibility home page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Jim Thatcher's tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm
Gez Lemon's blog: http://juicystudio.com/index.php
University of Illinois HTML best practices: http://html.cita.illinois.edu/
Each of these contains links to other useful resources as well.
This is a great resource; the one I refer to for sites I create.
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
The CEUD (here in Ireland) has actually got some excellent resources for accessibility in ICT. It's well worth a look for any developer.
Good overview here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/cognitive-disability-learning-difficulty/
For web applications, my favorite "killer site" is the WebAIM site. (http://webaim.org/) I drew on their site heavily while creating the accessibilty guidelines we use at my current organization.
Things I really like about WebAIM: They have created the "WAVE toolbar," an automated tool for checking your website for basic accessibility issues. They periodically do a screen reader usage survey-- I've found no one else that has comparable data compiled over a number of years. They have simplified versions of official accessibility checklists. They are located at a University and are constanty testing and updating their guidelines.
Just want to know if there's a forum dedicated to GDI/GDI+ or Windows graphics manipulation? Many thanks...
Have a look at Bob Powells GDI FAQ at web.archive.org/web/20141230145656/http://bobpowell.net/faqmain.aspx, there is loads of infromation on his site that has helped me out.
I want to integrate the same registration process that Stack Overflow has into my website. Does anyone know if this is possible and any ways I can go about doing this?
I am using ASP.NET MVC for my site implementation. It would be awesome if someone could point me in the right direction with some examples etc.
You can find out how to use OpenID here.
There's also DotNetOpenAuth.
Edit:
Andrew Arnott also pointed out in the comments that there is a pretty awesome OpenID selector control available. The Stack Overflow question it relates to is here.
Thanks Andrew!
I got a problem at my blog. I got visits from kind bots who leave "nice" comments to my blog posts :(
I'm wondering if there is a smarter way to keep them out, besides using the captcha modules.
My problem with the captcha modules is that I thinks they are anoying to the user :(
I don't know if it's any help to anyone but my site is in asp.net mvc beta.
Have you thought about using this?
http://akismet.com/
From their FAQ
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
It's a really easy to use system, which I highly recommend.
I've had good luck with Honeypots and Hashes.
By making it difficult for robots to post successfully, you can let users post without registration, captchas, or false positives from akismet.
Have a CAPTCHA that is really simple. Perhaps make it always "orange"? I don't think anyone's done that before.
Akismet is definitely the #1 method I know of for limiting spam comments. Also nice to offload that to a 3rd party (at a reasonable price).. that way if client complains, just 'shift the blame'
Another option is to incorporate something like mod_security's spammer signature file. They have a list of keywords you can scan a comment for and place the message to be moderated if you got a match. Though if you had a message board that actually discussed topics that contain these keywords, you'll need a lot of moderators. :-)
Also may want to consider scanning IP's and matching them against SpamHaus or DCShield's block lists. We recently started this approach and it has done wonders.
Things that don't work: requiring registration, simple captcha's, user agent... these can be automated or defeated with cheap labor.
I think you have several options...
Require registration to post comments - but thats more annoying than captcha, so probably not the best idea
Examine the user-agent of the poster (see here) for something that looks genuine or exclude those which look suspect
Use a nice Captcha. As annoying as they are, used properly they aren't that bad. It took me 7 attempts to sign up for a gmail the other day because i just couldnt read what it said. A nice captcha though isnt that bad really, kept it short and READABLE
If the spam you are receiving is link-heavy you could assume any comment that contains >= 2 links is a spam comment and not post it to the blog unless the blog author approves them. This is what most comment-spam plugins do. I'm currently working on a blog software and I adopted this solution in the interim until I can integrate akismet fully.
I made spam into someone else's problem by using Disqus to run my blog's comments. There has been no spam since switching, Disqus keeps on top of it.
A few answers advised Akismet but I disagree and consider dynamic captcha approach the best one