SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.5?

Setting Pepper‘s preferred language

What is the language of my robot

Pepper usually has several languages installed. For further details, see: Getting the list of installed languages.

He can easily switch from one language to another. For further details, see: Temporarily switching to another language.

Fallback language

English is his fallback language.

It means that if for any technical reason he is not able to find a word or a sentence in the current language, Pepper will automatically switch to English.

Preferred Language

You can define a language as his preferred or configured language.

For further details, see: Modifying the preferred language.

Modifying the preferred language

To modify the configured language:

Step Action
Display the Advanced settings.
Choose a language in the Robot language list.

Getting the list of installed languages

To get the list of installed languages, you may:

  • Ask Pepper.

    For further details, see: bc_get_sys_info_pep.

  • Check the list available in his advanced settings.

    For further details, see: Advanced settings.

Temporarily switching to another language

Pepper may temporarily switch to another language:

In both cases this switch is not permanent:

Pepper will switch back to the language defined in his settings as soon as the application ends or you stop chatting with Pepper.