/active_listening#

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/active_listening Quick Facts

Category

Speech and language processing

Message type

std_msgs/Bool

Direction

↔️ you might both publish and subscribe to this topic.

Whether or not recognized speech should be further processed (eg by the chatbot). See Dialogue management for details.

Quick snippets#

Check the publication rate#
$ rostopic hz /active_listening
Display the data published on the topic#
$ rostopic echo /active_listening

How to use in your code#

Subscribe to the topic using Python#
 1import rospy
 2from std_msgs.msg import Bool
 3
 4def on_data(msg):
 5    # see http://docs.ros.org/en/api/std_msgs/html/msg/Bool.html
 6    # for the msg structure
 7    print(msg)
 8
 9if __name__ == "__main__":
10
11    rospy.init_node("subscriber")
12    rospy.Subscriber("/active_listening", Bool, on_data)
13    rospy.spin()
Publish to the topic using Python#
 1import rospy
 2from std_msgs.msg import Bool
 3
 4if __name__ == "__main__":
 5    rospy.init_node("publisher")
 6
 7    pub = rospy.Publisher("/active_listening", Bool, queue_size=10)
 8    rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10Hz
 9    msg = Bool()
10
11    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
12
13        # check http://docs.ros.org/en/api/std_msgs/html/msg/Bool.html
14        # for the msg structure
15        # msg.data = ...
16        pub.publish(msg)
17
18        rate.sleep()