Week 10: Presentation Time!

Hello there! Week 10 wraps up my work for Senior Project and I am thrilled with the progress. I am glad to have met all the objectives I noted before the internship. With the final protocol baseline designed and stress tested, I have a clear path towards further development and implementing this tool as a live translation aid.

This week, similar to the last, was focused entirely on symposium and material preparation. I continued working with my Internal Advisor throughout the week to move from rough draft to a final paper. The figures I created for methodology overview and results were all formatted in my LaTeX Overleaf document for final presentation. The last portion was refining my appendix, providing real-time protocol outputs. With that, I shifted my focus to the symposium poster.

I designed the poster as an aid to my research paper. The paper covers all the technical background behind each implementation process, but the poster is the best resource for summarization. I started with detailed bullet points in each section, especially Introduction and Methodology. As I kept improving the visuals, I focused on balancing the text with more data tables and images. One key figure I worked on was a step-by-step display taking a sample mixed-language dialogue and showcasing how speech-to-text, segmentation, and translation works. This complemented the general methods figure which simply connected all the steps from dialogue to translation. I transferred some tables in my appendix directly to the poster itself to display both quantitative and qualitative results.

This entire process, from ideation to writing and formatting, was extremely time-consuming. The last material I needed to prepare was my presentation for the symposium. This visual aid was the most simple to create, taking the best points and graphs from previous works in a set of slides. After I completed my presentation, I looked back at all three to make sure every data point and conclusion I wanted to convey was present. With all the materials complete, I started mock presentations for the actual symposium.

As May 16 approaches, I will continue to refine the protocol and update those charts with any improvements made. Although the Senior Project internship work is complete, I want to continue building this protocol, whether at Virijallu or another radio station that is interested in the product. I’ll go over it in more detail at the symposium. Until then, thank you for reading this blog!