What’s new - 1.14.1

19 languages supported

Until release 1.14.0, NAO could talk and understand 8 languages:

  • Chinese (Mandarin),
  • English,
  • French,
  • German,
  • Italian,
  • Japanese,
  • Korean,
  • Spanish (Castilian).

Release 1.14.1 introduces 11 new languages, available for NAO V4.0:

  • Arabic,
  • Brazilian Portuguese,
  • Czech,
  • Danish,
  • Dutch,
  • Finnish,
  • Polish,
  • Portuguese,
  • Swedish,
  • Russian,
  • Turkish.

For further details, see: Language management and Available languages.

New method: setLanguageDefaultVoice

A new method allows defining a default voice for each language installed on your robot.

For further details, see: ALTextToSpeechProxy::setLanguageDefaultVoice()

Reminder about CMake backward compatibility

If you still use any code created before 1.12 Release, note that the portage of your code is now mandatory.

More specifically, this line, will throw an error:

use(naoqi-plugin-tools)

For further details, see : Porting code to 1.12.

Known issues

  • Bug #11365 Trying to connect two choregraphe sessions to a single robot, all connections are lost.

  • Bug #9940 Unlearn Face and Unlearn All Faces boxes have no effect.

  • Bug #8216 [Chrome] Nao webpage isn’t displayed properly, especially Network page.

    Workaround: clear the cache of your browser.

  • Bug #11112 [1.14.1 languages] In Choregraphe, the characters like “ě” or “í” are not displayed in the debug window nor in the Robot view.

  • Bug #6412 On Vista, you need to be administrator to use the flasher

  • Bug #6622 and #8502 Hand touch sometimes activated by motor usage

  • Bug #9820 Choice box can cause an issue on Geode (NAO V3.x) when used with more than 30 parameters

  • Bug #7856 sometimes MT9M114 HD camera (Atom - NAO V4) doesn’t handle well Auto Exposition: dark images seem even darker than expected.

    Workaround:

    • modify the Auto Exposure Algorithm parameter or
    • deactivate Auto Exposition and increase the value of Exposure parameter.

    For further details, see: MT9M114 HD camera parameters.

  • Bug #10072 and #9875 Mountain Lion is not yet supported.

    Workaround: it seems all major issues with Choregraphe may be solved by:

    • Installing X11 (from XQuartz),

    • Allowing your system to install an unsigned application.

      Disable security settings: System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Allow Application download from anywhere

  • Feature #4232 MP3 files start slower than WAV files

  • Feature #7290 The two parameters Voice Shaping and Speed of the Say box have no effect for Korean.

This release Note was generated on 2013-06-27.

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