Tinkering With A New Project

During the vacation this summer, I began working on creating an app that would help me respond to calls of attention when my auditory sensory capabilities were compromised courtesy the noise cancellation capabilities of my Bose headsets. Well, I managed to make a few mods to that script, used a touch of applescript (thank god OS X apps are scriptable) and introduced a bunch of new behaviors:

-> When a Skype call is in progress, the app stops listening.

Ok, not a bunch, just one. Also, this is not exactly an app you should be using since it relies too much on quirks in my own computing environment. Anyway, for more details you can head over to http://shriphani.com/Shriphani_Website/Listener.html.

So, a few screenshots:

Apart from that, I also wrote a protein function matching script as part of my research this semester. I will be putting it up soon. Wow, I have been more productive in these three weeks than all of last year.

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Published:: 09.18.09 / 4pm

Category:: python

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I am Shriphani Palakodety – an undergraduate in Purdue’s CS department. My interests in computing involve:

Machine Learning
Natural user interfaces
Machine Translation
Information Retrieval

I recently finished an internship with Microsoft in Redmond, WA with the Productivity Search team and my work involved Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Search. I also code in my spare time and you can find snippets on this blog or in my public repos : http://github.com/shriphani

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Chris 09.18.09 / 6pm

ever heard of Growl

http://growl.info/

nm, guess i should have read the site…

LE 09.19.09 / 6pm

Haha, wow, that’s an amazing idea — having the microphone of the computer listen to surrounding noise while using headphones to visually reciprocate audible calls of attention.

A better way to display it could be recoloring some part of OS X, like the menubar or something. Tint it red, I don’t know.

Shriphani 09.20.09 / 11pm

Chris,

I know of Growl and it actually is the way to go with this script. But I have had a lot of problems trying to compile Growl on this machine and geektool is the only way right now to get this to work.

LE,

Thanks for the kind words. The menubar sounds like a cool idea. I am OS X n00b and I need to learn a bit more to be able to do that. Thanks for the input though :)

Shriphani Palakodety

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