Accomplishments this week:
This week, we sought to address our number one concern which was not having our parts on time. I ordered most of my crucial hardware components, mainly the speaker and splitter wires I needed to get started building the filter system. In addition to this, after some feedback from Prof. Sullivan, I reassessed our options for scoring the user’s audio. Originally, we had a feedback system which would subtract the final combined output from the original song. Because this would be overly complicated and provide very poor quality feedback, I looked into a new system to do it all on the software side. I helped pivot our design to include a speech to text system that compares the lyrics the user sings which we will now use for scoring instead.
Schedule Update:
I am still behind schedule because we have not prototyped or built anything. The GANTT chart states that I should’ve been wrapping up most of the work for vocal removal and scoring by now. However, we will redistribute because since all of the design work is laid out and most has been tested, I should be able to quickly catch up with the real prototypes for these parts.
Next week:
I will start by trying to source op amps and other fundamental components for breadboarding the filter. Once I know if this is possible or not I will order the components on Monday in order to make progress. By the end of next week, I want to have either prototyped our filter or made the first iteration for our scoring.