Can NAO speak local languages?

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I want the NAO to be able to speak local language 'Hindi' which is not provided by Aldebaran Robotics. Is there a way to make the robot speak language other than officially supported, maybe by installing TextToSpeech Engine by ourselves. Any suitable pointers in this direction would be useful.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '13 at 08:24

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Yes you could use an external TextToSpeech:

a binary, directly if it's alsa compatible, as NAO is a gentoo linux onto alsa driver.
using a C++ lib and recompiling it using the NAOQi module: ALAudioDevice.sendAudioBuffer*.

answered May 29 '13 at 08:24

Alexandre Mazel

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 03 '15 at 17:42

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One possibility is that you can connect NAO with the TTS of Google translate.

edited Sep 03 '15 at 17:42

Brad Larson

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answered Sep 02 '15 at 08:39

Hoang-Long Cao

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Can NAO speak local languages?

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