Kemdi Emegwa’s Status Report for 2/8

This week I primarily worked on researching the mechanisms that we are going to use for text-to-speech/speech-to-text. Python has many established libraries for this purpose, but we have the added nuance that whatever model we use, will have to run directly on the Raspberry PI 4. I was able to find a lightweight, open-source model that was actually developed by CMU researchers called PocketSphinx. This will likely work well for our use case because the model is small enough to run locally on limited hardware. We are currently on schedule and for the upcoming week I plan to finish the python code for the Raspberry PI so we can start utilizing the speech-text on the device.