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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Developer or hobbyist, you'll love the way this book helps you turn the BeagleBone Black into a working robot. From listening and speaking to seeing and moving, we'll show you how ‚Äì step by step.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783559329
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

BeagleBone Robotic Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Black 3. Providing Speech Input and Output 4. Allowing the BeagleBone Black to See 5. Making the Unit Mobile – Controlling Wheeled Movement 6. Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling Legged Movement 7. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 8. Going Truly Mobile – Remote Control of Your Robot 9. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 10. System Dynamics 11. By Land, Sea, and Air Index

Using eSpeak to allow your projects to respond in a robotic voice


Sound is an important tool in your robotic toolkit, but you will want to do more than just play music. Let's allow your robot to speak.

Prepare for lift off

Now that you can both get sound in and out of your BeagleBone Black, let's do something useful with this capability. You're going to start by enabling eSpeak, an open source application that provides you with a computer voice.

Engage thrusters

eSpeak is an open source voice generation application. To get this free functionality, you'll need to do the following.

Download the eSpeak library by typing sudo apt-get install espeak. You'll probably have to accept the additional size space that the application requires, but this is fine based on your SD card size. The download may take a while, but the prompt will reappear when it is complete.

Now, let's see if the BeagleBoard Black has a voice. Type the following command: espeak "hello". The speaker should emit a computer voiced ...

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