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robotology/yarp-devices-azure-openai
YARP device plugins that wrap Azure OpenAI speech APIs (Whisper transcription, GPT-based transcription, and TTS) for use in robotics middleware pipelines. Targets robotics engineers already running YARP who want voice I/O without rolling their own Azure API integration. Not a general-purpose speech library.
Follows YARP's generated ParamsParser pattern properly — parameters are documented in .md files and auto-parsed, which is the right way to build YARP devices. Minimal dependency footprint: just curl plus YARP itself, no heavyweight speech SDKs. Bundles dr_mp3.h for MP3 decoding in TTS playback, avoiding a runtime dependency. CI workflow exists from day one, which is more than most robotology plugins manage.
Zero stars, explicitly marked WIP with APIs subject to breaking changes — this is pre-alpha and the maintainers say so themselves. Hard-locked to Azure OpenAI specifically; no abstraction layer means switching to a different provider requires rewriting device implementations. No evidence of actual robot hardware integration tests — the test files exist but there's no indication they run against real audio devices. The C language tag is misleading; this is C++ compiled as C, which matters if you're trying to link it into a pure-C project.