If you are a macintosh user then you need DeskBots from Tim Brown, an amusing scriptable application, which can talk and speak (PlainTalk) and do some other nice things. You can customice DeskBots with different personalitys, optional user phrases, skins, voices, sounds, animations and more. Get the last version, and your computer becomes alive :) Here you you can get Desktop Bots to become your Windows PC alive!
Or take WinAlize, the desktop version of the Loebner contest winning ALICE. More.
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