I’ve been testing a very simple version of the assistant and something I’ve noticed is that if I keep giving the same query, it responds with a response to that query plus all the previous responses to previous versions of the same query. I’m not sure if this is an issue on Thunkable’s end, or DialogFlow’s end, or if there’s something I don’t understand here.
Here’s what I did:
Made a DialogFlow account, copied the “Easter Eggs” prebuilt agent (one of the simplest ones, no API calls, just responses). Then I clicked on “default welcome intent” and added some “training phrases” like “hi” “hello” “hey” etc. There were already four responses there: hi, hello, good day, and greetings.
When I test it, it works like this:
I say “hello” when it’s listening, and it responds with one of the response phrases (for instance “good day”). Then the next time I give it a query, it will respond with the previous response “good day” as well as a new response. Then the third time I try it it responds with 3 responses. I tried this a bunch of times, it keeps going and going; I went until it was giving me 10 responses to one “hello” query.
Is this a bug? Am I missing something? Right now I’m stuck because I can’t seem to even get around it effectively; if I try to add a variable in local storage to only save the last “value”, then it won’t speak anything at all.
I would very much appreciate any insight anyone has into this problem.
On testing it a little more, I’ve noticed that this problem persists even if I change queries. So if my first query is “hello” and my second query is “what is the meaning of life?” I will get two responses, not one, for the second query.
The label is fine (it is just for debugging purposes); I also only get one response there. It’s the text to speech module that speaks multiple answers after one query.
I am using 11.4 but I only just upgraded and I’m pretty sure it was doing this on 11.3 too.
I also have multiple training phrases for the default Welcome intent, but I don’t think that should make any difference. I have also tried the other intents (including the default intent and my own intents) as well and they do the same thing.
I’m sorry, I did not understand. When I started the project, Speak did not work for me and I thought that there was a problem with Assistant. Now I’ll check it.
Huh. It ought to work; I’m sure I was using 11.3 8 days ago when I first posted.
Have you allowed access to the app for the microphone and (maybe?) the speech recognizer? Do you have default responses for any query given? I’m assuming though that if you get a response in the label you probably have all that worked out.
I dunno how much you’ve played with this, but another thing to try is to use the “query” block instead of the “start listening” block; then you don’t have to worry about the microphone.
Also, it looks like in my current iteration of this I have a “stop listening” block before the text to speech block; not sure if that would make a difference but might be worth a shot.
Yes, I have everything on and Text_To_Speech works separately. I add it to the assistant block, overload Thunkable Live - Text_To_Speech does not work. It did not work and 8 days ago. I updated the firmware on iOS 11.4, reinstalled Thunkable Live - Text_To_Speech in the assistant’s block does not work. It works separately, but only after rebooting Thunkable Live after it was pulled from the assistant’s unit.
And in the block Assistant.Query Text_To_Speech works.
I’ve got a way simpler version of your coding. My assistant answers correctly each time, but she repeats the answer 2-3 times each time I ask a question.
Hmmm. I tried that workaround and couldn’t get it to work. I placed a Label on my main screen so I could see the value returned by the Assistant. My Dialogflow agent returns only 1 of my programmed responses, and I can see it in the Label, but she SPEAKS all the responses I have in my Intent, sometimes even repeating the first one a couple of times
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