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• Microphone - computer-microphone.jar

• Camera - computer-camera.jar

• Browser - computer-browser.jar

  • the driver automatically launches a Chrome window that displays the page as rendered by the webserverservice. See Tablets/Phones/Browsers for more information.

• Speaker - computer-speaker.jar

  • The driver uses eSpeak for text-to-speech. Windows and Linux have it by default, however, macOS does not. Therefore install eSpeak from brew: brew install espeak.

  • can be used for generic audio playing, as well as text-to-speech with eSpeak

• Robot - computer-robot.jar

  • can be used for emulating Pepper/Nao robots

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The independent usage of sensors and actuators does do not have any dependencies by themselves. Instead, services are dependent on them. So, depending on the services run, the necessarily sensor/actuator should be used.

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1. start Docker with the required text_to_speech service

2. start computer-robot.jar, computer-speakers.jar

   • Important: If you are operating on a MacBook, kindly ensure you launch these drivers on a terminal.

   • the https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py emulates Text-to-Speech on a robot; hence we need to use both a robot emulator and the speakers as actuators.

3. run https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py

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The available drivers have been tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. MacOS macOS can also be used , but has not been as extensively tested and compatibility and support for it are limited (colloquially: most of the time they should work on MacOS too, but sometimes there are cryptic bugs that makes them unusable).