Weekend, Week 10

Today I reworked some sections of code to make the program run faster on the website (currently some parts were running slowly, due to poor design decisions). Particularly that of the sound lookup, which currently runs about 1 sec faster per lookup. This may not be necessary, but if the project should expand, it'll make a lot more sense to have the whole program run more efficiently.

Weekend, Week 9

Today, I continued working on design documentation, particularly that pertaining to the process flow of the application. The information was there, cleaning it up to make it readable and flow well was the problem.

Weekend, Week 8

Today I worked on improving the documentation; and will continue to do so for the next few weeks, since the basic functionality of the project exists already, and I have yet to receive a reply for any of my emails/calls to the project partner.

Weekend, Week 7

This weekend, I spent my time debugging the code (upon trying to compile it) and found that the new features introduced last semester had not been completed. I spent a lot of time simply identifying errors, and trying my best to fix them. More debugging will be done soon.

Unfortunately, as of this writing, I have yet to receive an email from the teacher assigned to the project.

Weekend, Week 6

Today, I spent my time understanding exactly how the word is synthesized into speech. It is done with great hassle, since it has to be done nearly manually. The word list is parsed automatically, but the sounds have to be created using a utility. The sentence, from what I can see, is picked individually from the internet, and then synthesized into speech. This is very tedious, and I'm looking into how to make this more automated. Also, some of the sounds (during initial testing) were performed by a regular human voice. Further testing is going to occur this week.