David’s Status Report for 4/12

This week I worked on two main things: server side streaming and 3d printing. For server side streaming, we were worried about end to end latency as current testing seemed to be around 8 seconds. To eliminate this, we decided to implement streaming for both the server/model and the on board speech/text models. I did the server side and modified the code to allow the server to return words as they are generated which massively increases the speed. This makes the speech a little choppy due to it receiving one word at a time, so next week I might try to change the granularity to maybe 5-10 words. I also have done some work on improving the 3d model. The first iteration came out pretty well, but I want to add some more components to make it complete like a sliding bottom and a sliding top to prevent the speaker from falling out if moved upside down. I am hoping this is the final iteration, but if it doesn’t come out according to plan then I might have to do one more print. I am on schedule, and along with the aforementioned things I will also try to do some testing/verification for next week.