Hello Dev.to Community
Today I got a quite special article to you because I'm about to tell you what are my impressions on the university's open day I'd pleasure to attend.
You're ready ? Let's go !
This article is not an paid-article or advertisement for the university, it's just an expression of my own experiences after such event.
Introduction
Firstly let's establish where the heck have I been to ? So I've attended the open-day at the IT-Faculty of ZUT (pl. Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny), in english West-Pomeranian Technological University, placed in Szczecin.
The open-day consisted of walk-around tour, where I and other visitors visited 3 Laboratories. One, where there was a car drive simulator and visitors got the opportunity to try driving a car simulator experiencing what's called immersion.
Then we headed over to the basement-part (No they haven't wanted to show us kittens), rather the embedded-systems lab and the studio where there can occur a voice manipulation and prove that IT is not only about strictly profit-maximalization focused software for analysis or other tasks. But also about things like voice manipulation, voice recognition ect.
Below you can see some from the labs mentioned:
Image 1: Car Simulator Lab
Image 2: Machine which prints elements on the board needed for a component's circuit
Image 3: PC with a special device to manipulate the sound (I cannot name)
As the labs we directed to the game-dev student research club lab, where we have been given the opportunity to play a game that students have done during their internal game-jam event.
And finally, the most awaited part of the entire open-day was about to start, the lecture about voice conversion, meaning how the voice is actually understood by the machine.
BUT UNEXPECTEDLY
The beautiful and flawless day had to be interrupted by shitty Microsoft SpywareOS by other called "Windows", which had either to debug or update, I don't remember already. And that's a great reasons for the uni-principals or heads of the university to start considering switching uni-PCs to Linux ;D (Half Joke, Half Truth).
Therefore the Lecture was shortened and fully conducted. However I did manage to catch the terminology and the overall grasp of how the voice is actually converted to numbers and also why sometimes PCs or electronical devices do not understand what we tell to them.
Image one with explanation and visualisation, what Sound pressure (Ciลnienie akustyczne) is.
Slide with defintion of Phoneme and visualisation.
It's been really interesting and I have written some of the key-words where I could expand my knowledge on voice manipulation and general voice-machine work.
After the lecture, there was also a possibility to get some university's merch or even win something, if a valid answer on drawn question was valid. I actually was successful with answering the question and I won a bag of the faculty, which really fits my office colours.
Summary
Overall, the event was a satisfying introduction to the student although it were only 2 hours. I'm high-key disappointed, that the lecture had to be sped up and some slides were just flashed over. In general, I give in US-grade-scale A- as an encouragement to switch to Linux and perhaps prepare and check the work of presentation before the lecture :D
I'm looking forward to become a student at the uni to learn as well as share knowledge I gained throughout my journey with IT.
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