Austin Hendrix

Documentation Out of Date (ros ticket #21)

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Looks like the sound engine has changed enough to make the documentation of date. One example on this page: http://www.ros.org/wiki/sound_play/Tutorials/ConfiguringAndUsingSpeakers The asoundconf program does not seem to be installed as...

For the 'say' command, soundplay_node.py creates a couple of files in /tmp, i.e. play_sound_text_temp.txt and play_sound_wave_temp.wav, but doesn't set their permissions to be non-owner writable. Migrated from: https://code.ros.org/trac/wg-ros-pkg/ticket/3768

sound_play won't work for Ubuntu 12.04 unless played as root or logged in user (ros ticket #22)

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If a user is logged in, then only that user and sometimes root can play audio. For sound_play on robots, sometimes we have a GUI user that logs in, but...

capture timestamped audio (ros ticket #20)

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I have added a new node (and msg) that enables the ability to capture timestamped audio (in raw). This would be useful for precisely determining when captured sounds happen, such...

Write an audio_transport library, similar to image_transport (ros ticket #12)

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Implement a library for audio transport over ROS that has the appropriate metadata and abstraction for different sound encoding schemes and compressions. Detailed spec to be filled in by Mike...

While the documentation of the sound_play node says that more than one sound at a time can be played, this appears not to be the case (even when calling it...

There are currently no unit tests in audio_common. Add at least basic unit tests to ensure that the API is stable and that method calls succeed. trac data: - Owner:...

Create a parameter and a syntax to configure the output device for soundplay_node. This allows sound to be configured on a non-default device, and allows output to multiple devices. trac...