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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293136
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Blue FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Blue 3. Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement 4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 5. Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See 6. Providing Speech Input and Output 7. Making the Unit Very Mobile - Controlling Legged Movement 8. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 9. By Land, By Sea, By Air 10. System Dynamics

Using Pocketsphinx to interpret your voice commands

Now that our projects can speak, you will want them to listen as well. This isn't nearly as simple as the speaking part, but thankfully, you have some significant help. You are going to download a set of capabilities called Pocketsphinx, and using these, you will provide your project with the ability to listen to your commands.

The first step is to download the Pocketsphinx capability. Unfortunately, this is not quite as user-friendly at the eSpeak process, so follow along carefully. First, go to the Sphinx website, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University at http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/. This is an open source project that provides you with the speech recognition SW you will need. With your smaller, embedded system, you will be using the Pocketsphinx version of this code.

You will need to download two pieces of software...

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