Friday

• On Friday, I didn’t do the exercises that everyone else doing job prep were doing. I wanted to continue writing C code, and continued to work on the bencode parser in C. I barely was able to finish adding support for lists.
• I got comfortable using Valgrind, in the process of debugging a stupidity of not using realloc correctly.
• What I was able to write with Python in an hour or so, I have been writing for about a day, in C, and haven’t yet finished it! It definitely doesn’t help that my C is very rusty…

Saturday & Sunday

• I didn’t work much, and went around New York with Madhu. We went to quite a few places around here, the highlight being, the view of Manhattan’s skyline from the Staten Island Ferry.
• NYC’s library also had an interesting exhibhition on the history of America, just before and during WW-I.
• On Sunday, I tried out Mary TTS on the raspberry pi, and it is simply unusable.
• I then, started writing a simple wrapper around Google’s tts that is used by Google translate.
• The TTS part is more or less working right now, the next step would be to deploy it on the RaspberryPi and start using it as a radio, to see what my needs are like. Hooking it up to Jasper client seems like a good idea, right now… though I’m not sure if it would work very well, with the pi’s audio output drowning out the voice commands.