#NAORobotAssistant Integrating Google Assistant into NAO Robot

Week of 7-06-2020 - 7-12-2020:

- Set up NAO virtual OS
- Researched how to upgrade the kernel without damaging NAO functionality.

Week of 7-13-2020 - 7-19-2020:

- Continued research on Gentoo 

Week of 7-20-2020 - 7-26-2020

- Solved problem with syncing new ebuild 
- Upgraded the OS from version 10.0 to 17.0
- Fixed the eselect tool after upgrade
- Enabled PulseAudio and audio passthrough in VM
- Installed and tested Google Assistant using Python 2.7
- Wrote a shell script to automate the setup process.

Week of 7-27-2020 - 8-2-2020

-  Worked on solving issue with shell script formatting.
-  Started to troubleshoot sound card issues with google assistant

Week of 8-3-2020 - 8-9-2020

-  Rebuilt NAO VM with portaudio enabled
-  Fixed errors in setup.sh to correctly automate current configuration
-  Continued to troubleshoot cause of sound capture errors

    -  I've narrowed this down to a few missing packages, am currently searching for them to resolve the issue.

Week of 8-10-2020 - 8-16-2020

-  Fixed the microphone issue with OpenNAO vm
-  Began testing audio input using arecord and google assistant audio test funciton
-  Began investigating sound output volume issue

Week of 8-17-2020 - 8-23-2020

-  Finalized the write up for the summer work on this project
-  Created a virtual machine that contains the accumulated work for the Summer II semester
-  Compiled a report listing the steps taken for Summer II semester, as well as listing next steps