This week I worked together with my teammates on preparing the presentation slides, including working on the use case and technical challenges. I also discussed with my teammates about the hardware items that we need to buy and order from the inventory list as well as other vendors, such as items required for the motor platform, visual detection model, and voice recognition model. What’s more, I also researched how we could implement the voice recognition part. Including two types of microphone arrays that we could potentially use (ReSpeaker 2-Mic HAT, ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array), as well as several offline keyword spotting engines that are suitable for running Raspberry Pi (vosk, Picovoice Rhino, Porcupine).
This week my progress aligns with our current schedule, which is to finish proposal presentation, prepare for hardware items, and research on voice recognition modules implementation.
For next week, I’m planning to further decide on how we will carry out the voice module. And I’m also going to work on the design presentation, and prepare for the upcoming deadline for our design plan.