#! /usr/bin/env python # -*- encoding: UTF-8 -*- """Example: Non ascii Characters""" import qi import argparse import sys import codecs def say_from_file(tts_service, filename, encoding): with codecs.open(filename, encoding=encoding) as fp: contents = fp.read() # warning: print contents won't work to_say = contents.encode("utf-8") tts_service.say(to_say) def main(session): """ This example uses non ascii characters. """ # Get the service ALTextToSpeech. tts_service = session.service("ALTextToSpeech") try : tts_service.setLanguage('French') except RuntimeError: print "No French pronunciation because French language is not installed. Pronunciation will be incorrect." say_from_file(tts_service, 'coffee_fr_utf-8.txt', 'utf-8') say_from_file(tts_service, 'coffee_fr_latin9.txt', 'latin9') tts_service.setLanguage('English') # the string "I like coffee" is encoded the exact same way in these three # encodings say_from_file(tts_service, 'coffee_en.txt', 'ascii') say_from_file(tts_service, 'coffee_en.txt', 'utf-8') say_from_file(tts_service, 'coffee_en.txt', 'latin9') if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("--ip", type=str, default="127.0.0.1", help="Robot IP address. On robot or Local Naoqi: use '127.0.0.1'.") parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=9559, help="Naoqi port number") args = parser.parse_args() session = qi.Session() try: session.connect("tcp://" + args.ip + ":" + str(args.port)) except RuntimeError: print ("Can't connect to Naoqi at ip \"" + args.ip + "\" on port " + str(args.port) +".\n" "Please check your script arguments. Run with -h option for help.") sys.exit(1) main(session)