Using
Howie Chatbot with ROS
This
is a bare minimum script to run Howie in ROS it wont use voice
recognition yet and uses festival for text to speech. I use Ubuntu
12.4 with ROS groovy and rosbuild not catkin you need to Create a ROS
Workspace using the tutorial from here
http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment
Install
festival with your package manager
Install the supplied files in you ROS workspace do a rosmake in the top level of each
directory. In a terminal window type “roslaunch howie_ros howie.launch”
Change to the nodes directory and in a terminal window
run“rosrun howie_ros robbiei.py”
If it all works in the
terminal_input window type in “what is you name “ and in the
other terminal you will see the response. If it doesn't understand
the question make sure you run robbie.py in the nodes directory if
festival is configured correctly you will also hear the response.
You can
change the name of the bot in robbie.py
This is
more of a hack than any thing else
regards
Peter
