This week I spent a lot of time testing and making changes. After extensive testing I determined that the current solutions we were using for speech to text and text to speech were not going to be sufficient for what we want to do. CMU Pocketsphinx and Espeak simply did not allow for the minimum performance necessary for out system. Thus i made the transition to Vosk for speech to text and Coqui TTS for text to speech.
I spent a lot of time configuring the environment for these two new additions as well as determining which models would be suitable for the raspberry pi. I was able to get both working and tested, which yielded significantly better performance for similar power usage.
In addition, I add the ability to add/delete songs on our frontend for out music capabilities. I also added a database to store these songs.
I am on track and going forward, I plan on testing the frontend on the raspberry pi.
