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Chatbots

Chatbots
and the uncanny valley of linguistics - Are you interested in chatbots? If so, you are probably familiar with the challenging topic of vocal interaction... As a SoftBank Robotics linguist working on the subject with our robots, I attended a linguistics conference to check the state of the art on this issue. Here’s what I learned there!
2020/02/27
Chatbots
Blog

Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language

Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language
How to install a language package and get speech recognition in new languages - As international talking robots, Pepper and NAO can access many languages for speech recognition, and its management is quite easy. This quick how-to explains how to set up new languages installing a language pack in a few simple steps.
2020/09/30
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Pepper QiSDK
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Pepper (NAOqi 2.5)
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NAO⁶
Let’s make Pepper and NAO speak a second language
Blog

Android Studio logs explained through QiSDK app lifecycle

Android Studio logs explained through QiSDK app lifecycle
How to use logs in Android Studio to develop QiSDK application on Pepper robot - The aim of this tutorial is to give a quick overview of logging in the Android Studio environment. As a live example to put logs into practice, we will also focus on the application lifecycle in the QiSDK context which is based on Android lifecycle.
2020/05/26
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Pepper QiSDK
Android Studio logs explained through QiSDK app lifecycle
Documentation

Conversation

Reference QiChat Language Tutorials
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
Documentation

Mastering Chat locale

Goal In this tutorial, we will use the Locale in order to change the locale of a Chat. The application will be able to switch the discussion locale between English and Japanese. Warning This tutorial aims to switch locale at the very limited level of the chat. According to your use case, you could prefer to manage the locale more globally, at application level.
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
Documentation

QiChatbot – Mastering Dynamic concept

Goal In this tutorial, we will create a dynamic QiChatbot, using Dynamic concepts. For further details, see: QiChat dynamic. Prerequisites Before stepping in this tutorial, you should: Know how to use Android resources. Be familiar with the Action notion. For further details, see: Running Actions on Pepper. Know how to use the QiChatbot. For further details, see: Listen and reply — QiChatbot. Let’s start a new project Start a new project, let’s call it DynamicConceptsPepper. Robotify it and make sure it implements the QiSDK & the Robot Life Cycle. For further details, see: Creating a robot application. Creating the topic file. Create a new topic file named greetings_dynamic.top for the English (en) language. Add the following content to this file: For more details about the syntax, see:
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK
Documentation

Mastering Execute

Goal In this tutorial, we will go to a specific part of a QiChat Language and execute an action when it reaches Execute. The robot will say a sentence and by reaching ^execute it will make the baseQiChatbot run a animation synchronously.
2019/10/30
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Pepper QiSDK