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A week ago, for my mobile device programming class, I had to add text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities to a freely available Android program called Twitta. The features I added were very crudely superimposed on the Twitta interface, therefore this edit is by no means polished or intended for production usage.

There are 3 button “S”, “X”, and “R”. “S” starts the playback of all of the tweets which are currently displayed on the screen. Once the user scrolls down and new tweets appear on the screen the button can be pressed again and only the new ones will be read. “X” stops the playback of the messages. “R” prompts the user to speak their tweet. The google speech to text engine converts it to text and is displayed on the edit bar. If the message was wrong, pressing “R” again clears it and prompts for new speech. The message can also be edited with the keyboard. Below is a video of the application in action:

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• Capstone Project (Upgrade High School’s Network Infrastructure)

This is a project my friend, Stacie Gonzalez and I started in order to bring attention to the deplorable condition of the network at our high school (Miami Lakes Educational Center). We initially started it as a letter and petition to the school’s principal stating the the weaknesses of the then current infrastructure, which caused daily problems when attempting to get online (The letter is included in the PDF). Our school’s principal then gave us the task of designing several alternatives to correct the situation, which we made our Capstone Graduation Project. We then presented the design to the CIO of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) and her subordinates, the administrators of: security, finance, and network infrastructure. Our proposal was then used as the basis for upgrading the school’s infrastructure. For our work with both the school and the Miami-Dade County Public Schools staff, we were awarded the Cisco Networking Academy ‘3R’ award.

• CAAP Internship Design Project (Design Network for High School)

During an internship with the (M-DCPS) Cisco Academy Apprenticeship Program (CAAP) I led a team of five other students in completing our network design project. We were asked to design a ficticious school and its network. Our design was teh winning design during the 2006 summer intership.