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Sound_play action library

sound_play

asked 2011-09-22 03:40:02 -0600

David Lu

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Is there a reason the sound_play library is not implemented as actions? It seems odd to have a system with no feedback as to whether the sound actually played/was found, and the API seems very un-ROS-y.

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answered 2011-09-22 04:59:25 -0600

Lorenzo Riano
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I think the main problem is with festival, as AFAIK it does not provide any feedback once you issue a command. Therefore you will never know if the text to speech has finished saying what it has to say.

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A valid point, but if you issue a say command without sound_play running, then the current library will print out an error, but give no actual feedback to the program that called the command.