conversation.js

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var TJBot = require('tjbot');
var config = require('./config');

// obtain our credentials from config.js
var credentials = config.credentials;

// obtain user-specific config
var WORKSPACEID = config.conversationWorkspaceId;

// these are the hardware capabilities that TJ needs for this recipe
var hardware = ['microphone', 'speaker'];

// set up TJBot's configuration
var tjConfig = {
    log: {
        level: 'verbose'
    }
};

// instantiate our TJBot!
var tj = new TJBot(hardware, tjConfig, credentials);

console.log("You can ask me to introduce myself or tell you a joke.");
console.log("Try saying, \"" + tj.configuration.robot.name + ", please introduce yourself\" or \"" + tj.configuration.robot.name + ", who are you?\"");
console.log("You can also say, \"" + tj.configuration.robot.name + ", tell me a joke!\"");

// listen for utterances with our attentionWord and send the result to
// the Conversation service
tj.listen(function(msg) {
    // check to see if they are talking to TJBot
    if (msg.startsWith(tj.configuration.robot.name)) {
        // remove our name from the message
        var turn = msg.toLowerCase().replace(tj.configuration.robot.name.toLowerCase(), "");

        // send to the conversation service
        tj.converse(WORKSPACEID, turn, function(response) {
            // speak the result
            tj.speak(response.description);
        });
    }
});