Pareekshith Status Report – 2/7

This week, I worked with my group to complete the proposal presentation slides and discuss components that would be required. After some discussion, we ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 and a motor driver, and I’m also thinking of ordering the USB 3.0 video camera that’s available on the parts list. I’ve also started taking a look at the auditory component and the technology stack that would be needed to accomplish VAD (voice activity detection) and ASR (automatic speech recognition) reliably. Currently, I’m on schedule and next week, I look to finalize the design of the entire system and its integration with my group, and on my own end, I want to figure out exactly how the audio system would work in tandem with the Raspberry Pi 5 that we ordered. Specifically, I want to see if there are any online libraries or in-built features that come with the Pi that would be helpful for transcribing the speech from the actors’ microphones into usable text.