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• Microphone - computer-microphone.jar

• Camera - computer-camera.jar

  • Docker service: stream_video

• Browser - computer-browser.jar

  • Docker service: webserver

  • 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. Docker service: stream_audio

  • 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

The drivers are run from the https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/docker/src/master/sic-local/ folder and have been provided as a JAR in the format computer-*. To run them, Java 8 or later is required to be installed on your machine. Launch one of the local devices by either double-clicking the drivers or using the BAT (Windows) or SH (Linux/Mac) file. With a locally running SIC framework you can always just press OK in the initial dialogbox dialog box that appears.

* computer speakers always use eSpeak for text-to-speech purposes unless a service uses DialogFlow or Google’s text-to-speech. Windows and Linux have eSpeak by default, however, macOS does not. Therefore install eSpeak from brew: brew install espeak for MacOs.

Dependencies

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

How to Use

An example will be used to demonstrate how these drivers are used. Assume https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py needs to be run.

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