What did you personally accomplish this week on the project? Give files or photos that demonstrate your progress. Prove to the reader that you put sufficient effort into the project over the course of the week (12+ hours).
This week began with an initial ethics discussion. This discussion gave us some valuable feedback and information regarding the possible complications we might see if our product is taken to market and the worst possible outcomes. Alongside the ethical discussion, as a group we continued to work on camera integration and setting up the Nano for the interim demo the coming week. This was a little frustrating as the camera we initially wanted to work with was causing the Nano to malfunction and not turn on at all after the driver was downloading.
Individually, I took this week to iron out the software infrastructure for my subsystem, designing classes for the spell-checking as well as the text-to-speech interface. This will allow our final software product to be easily put together and run through a single main file. In addition, it will help to minimize overall latency by not rerunning initializations. The actual spell checking software takes in a sentence, and returns the sentence with all errors corrected in words that were not in the dictionary. At the moment this is a very basic algorithm that simply returns the first single difference word found (naive). I hope to assign a probability that returns the best fit word at the final demo.
Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
Currently I am on track to have a simple demo of the subsystem for the interim demo, then scale it up and connect it with the other subsystems for the final product.
What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
In the upcoming week I would like to get the text to speech configured such that it can be called and immediately speak the inputted text without needing to convert to a file beforehand. This should reduce latency and clutter. In the upcoming week and beyond I would like to try and get a basic probability working for the spell check algorithm so it doesn’t just return the first possible solution.