Monthly Video Updates

Visual documentation of our development progress

Each month, we create a 1-2 minute video update showcasing our progress, interesting findings, and key developments in the ReadingStar project. These videos provide a visual insight into our development process and achievements.

Late March 2025

Key Features

  • Final improvements to core features including incrementing score based on similarity
  • Adding accessibility features including focus mode and settings panel
  • NPU power benchmarking

OneDrive Link: End of March 2025 Update Video

Early March 2025

Key Features

  • User interface development including sliding bar and pressable buttons
  • Playlists stored in JSON
  • Changing AI threshold difficulty
  • Compile the backend into an executable

OneDrive Link: March 2025 Update Video

February 2025

Key Features

  • Syncing lyrics with video
  • Compile frontend into a native Windows app
  • Identifying the end of a song and displaying points achieved

OneDrive Link: February 2025 Update Video

January 2025

Key Features

  • Extract lyrics for each song and display current lyric
  • Initialised the frontend in react native Windows
  • Integrated FastAPI to communicate with frontend
  • Star appears when phrase is matched, and score increments by 100

OneDrive Link: January 2025 Update Video

December 2024

Key Features

  • UI sketches
  • Testing with different speech recognition models
  • Extracting lyrics

OneDrive Link: December 2024 Update Video