Pareekshith’s Status Report for 2/14

This week, I was working heavily on the final design and the design presentation due next week, which I’ll be presenting for my group. I also requested a USB 3.0 video camera that functions in low light, which is perfect in our scenario of a stage production. I’ve been doing more research on the auditory portion of the project and was able to get through what I was hoping I would be able to accomplish from last week. Specifically, I found certain modules/libraries that come with the Raspberry Pi 5 such as WebRTC VAD for the voice activity detection component and Vosk for the automatic speech recognition portion. During our group meetings, I was also looking into the UWB sensors and their compatibility with the Raspberry Pi 5, and my team and I discussed different options for synchronization of the anchors and the tags to the Pi. My progress is on schedule, and next week, I hope to deliver a good and explanatory presentation and also find the exact microphones that our group should be using. I’m looking at Lavalier microphones over Bluetooth microphones because of their better range, but I need to look into transceiver compatibility with our Raspberry Pi 5 ports.