Bedtime Story

Many children are deprived from some of the fondest memories of their parents reading them bedtime stories, so we created an iOS app which allows parents who have to be absent to voice record books.

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Inspiration

We were inspired by single parents and other parents unable to read to their children late at night. We were also inspired to encourage children to read more at a young age. Additionally, being read to at a young age is beneficial, leading to a more advanced vocabulary, cognitive development, attention span, and listening skills.

What it does

Our app displays children's picture books. It allows parents to record themselves reading the book and the child to play back the recording when the parent is not around.

How we built it

We built the app using Swift and Firebase for authentication.

Challenges we ran into

We had limited previous experience with the technology stack. Furthermore, we had technical issues since only 2/4 group members had Mac computers to program Swift in and one of those computers died during the hackathon.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to finish a project and submit with the core functionalities intact. We are all new to hackathons, with only one of us having competed in one before.

What we learned

We became familiar with how to program and structure a Swift app as well as Firebase basics for authentication and databases.

What's next for Bedtime Story

We plan to implement better scalability features by hosting data via Firebase database rather than locally. We also want to use OCR to recognize text on the screen for book upload and speech-to-text to highlight the current word being read. In addition to book upload, we would like to incorporate a bookstore where customers could buy books modified specially for our platform.

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