Open Source Software Development Kit

To actively stimulate application development for the robot, Speecys developed an SDK appropriately named “Open Roads.” The SDK can be downloaded from their website and is completely royalty-free, even for commercial applications.

The underlying SDK approach is surprisingly simple: you communicate with the robot using TCP/IP socket data streams, and each command has its own basic data packet format that's very logical and easy to understand.

Almost all of the data file formats are flat ASCII text, but there are a few exceptions such as the audio files.With simplicity often comes power. The open SDK and data formats facilitate the use of a wealth of well established, proven application libraries. For example, the Microsoft .Net 3.0 System Speech libraries can be used to add voice recognition and synthesized speech to the robot. Video capture, object recognition and tracking and other advanced functionality can also be added using the same approach.