Furhat: Preparations

We suggest that you do this together in the group. Maybe by having someone that has more time, skills, interest doing it first and then guiding the others.

Preparations

  1. Install FurhatSDK that have been sent to you on your computer. At least for old users of the SDK you need to go in under Settings after having logged into furhat.io and ask to create a APT-token.
  2. Make sure you have some JDK version 8 installed. You can check this by running "javac -version" from the command line.  If you need to install it, you can for example use AdoptOpenJDK (make sure to select version 8).

  3. Install IntelliJ. You can download it from here. Community edition works fine. When you start it the first time you need to make some settings. Pressing defaults works.

  4. Watch the introduction video on FurhatSDK and follow the instructions there. In the video, you will also see how you can verify that FurhatSDK and speech recognition is working properly. You can use the built-in microphone in your computer, but we recommend to use a headset for better speech recognition performance. Note: The password to the web interface is "admin".
    1. For some of the instruction regarding creating a skill it is helpful to consult this page Links to an external site.as it is a bit difficult to read the terminal commands in the video. 
    2. On a Mac it might come in handy to know that you can see files that start with a . (as in .furhat for example) in a finder if you press command + shift + . . This will toggle showing files that start with a .. 

Creating the Fruit Seller skill

Go through the Fruit Seller tutorial to get to know more about Furhat SDK.

 

If you have problems ask in the Discussion forum here on Canvas to see if someone else can help you. Do not contact Furhat directly. There are too many of you for that.

 

Documentation

Check the documentation at docs.furhat.io to learn about the Furhat SDK