SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.8?

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 language_codes_nao.

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 : cpp-tutos-porting-1.12.