Poppy as an interface to control Cantor Digitalis

[oudeyer]

@Clement Cantor Digitalis is an open-source software for voice synthesis controlled by gestures:

http://cantordigitalis.limsi.fr/chorusdigitalis_en.php

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LTjM3Lihis&feature=youtu.be&t=13s

Maybe some Poppy users would be interested to explore how the body of a Poppy creature (Humanoid or Ergo) can become a tangible interface to control such voices.

Also, one might think whether the Explauto software for curiosity-driven exploration could be used for a machine to explore voice synthesis driven by curiosity:

Explauto: autonomous exploration with Poppy

With @Clement, we are currently developing Explauto, a Python library designed to study, model and simulate curiosity-driven learning and exploration in robotic agents. The main idea behind this framework is to provide a common interface for the implementation of active sensorimotor learning algorithm (details about the scientific groundings can be found here). While developed to be easily integrated with various simulated or robotic environments, Explauto is tightly linked with Pypot through …

[Clement]

Yes we saw this last week, trying it is on the todo list of Pierre and I