This week I worked on getting things ready for the demo. First I worked on adding some new sections to the main website people can visit to learn about Voice Vault. I added a section describing what our product is and another section on how to setup the device. I also added the top nav bar to navigate through all the sections: 
I also worked on setting up the pages needed for the device website. Originally, I had setup just one page after the user logged in where they could adjust their VM url and see their music. This week I worked on overhauling how this works. I made it so the home page just had 2 buttons where the user can change their configuration settings or go to the music page. This looks like this:
I also implemented functionality on everything on the settings page to be saved locally so we can access it later, but the functionality to actually change all the configs internally hasn’t been implemented yet. For example I can change the wake word and it will save but it won’t actually change the wake word being used by the device.
This week I also worked extensively with David to try and get our models containerized. I worked on developing the actual docker files being used and the docker compose. I came up with a solution found here: https://github.com/jankrom/Voice-Vault/commit/7501d4eebc4cd480b79e89e9fdfd27402f51c14f. With this solution, we just need to run “MODEL=“smollm2:135m” MODEL_TAG_DOCKER=“smollm2-135m” docker compose up –build” where we just change what the env variables to change which model is being downloaded form ollama. This makes it much more flexible and really easy for us to make new model containers. We struggled a lot trying to build this and get it to work. WE also had a lot of trouble to get ollama to use the GPU, so we spent many hours doing this. But we eventually got it to work. I then also spun up a VM on GCP with a GPU and set up up a container using llama3.2 8b version which we will use for the demo.
Lastly, I worked together with David and Kemdi doing final touches on getting everything ready for the demo. This included testing everything end to end for our 3 main features (talking to model, setting alarm, playing music) and fixing stuff as they came up. Ultimately, we got everything done we wanted to for the demo.
My progress is on schedule. Next week I want to do the prompt engineering tests to find the best prompt for us to use. I also want to finish the VM setup guide and I wand to finish up the main website to no longer include some placeholder values for the models (which will also include making all the model containers).