This past week, I heavily focused on the Design Presentation – ensuring a few slides, in particular, were clean, consistent, and logical. These few slides were complex and contained a lot of information that was difficult to aesthetically fit (i.e. slides 2, 3, 7). Additionally, I was the speaker for the design presentation. Thus, I spent considerable time rehearsing since our presentation was on Wednesday which allowed for more practice time.
Additionally, after working with the group to delegate portions of the design report, I have been working through my portion of the document. This will continue past Saturday night.
Other than meeting tasks assigned by the class, I took this week to really understand the benefits and drawbacks of the ‘wavelet transform based’ phase vocoder in relation to other time-scale modification methods we could use. This involved reading (very slowly, haha) numerous research papers and their findings on tradeoffs between the various methods. I now understand the high-level processes behind each of these methods, what distinguishes them from each other, and how exactly each of the more advanced/more accurate techniques builds off of the closest simpler/less accurate method considered. (These methods were explained in the design presentation & will be in the design report).
Next steps, following the completion of the design report, will be to complete a base portion/’method’ of the described phase vocoder.