At the beginning of this week I did some initial research into serial communication protocols as well as open source speech to text to determine a rough estimate of the specs needed for our parts. I assisted in making a rough budget sheet and determining vendors for all of our parts. Then I completed the order forms for all of the components needed for our MVP.
Later in the week I experimented with Vosk speech to text, which we’ve decided to use for our project because it provides accurate, low-latency, live transcription. It also offers a variety of models of different sizes.
I also continued my research into serial communication protocols, and IR communication protocols specifically. I’ve determined some rough design ideas, specifically using a 38kHz carrier frequency combined with the ideas underlying the NEC infrared protocol (PWM) and Hamming error correction (likely 10,5) to achieve our goal of low latency, low error transmission that can support 200-250 WPM.
We are on schedule, and having been able to put in the order for all of our needed parts, as well as having the Raspberry Pis arrive already at the end of this week, puts us in a good place to continue well on track next week.
Next week a lot of my attention will be focused on the Design Review slides as well as planning for the Design Report. In terms of deliverables I plan to implement the groundwork for our encoding/signal generation and get the code running & testable on the Raspberry Pi.