BlindTalk

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0:00 (About) 0:40 (Impact) 1:09 (Future) 1:26 (Challenge) 2:00 (Demo) 2:45. day 1 - planning day 2 - coding bot + josh got sick day 3 submission :D

Inspiration

Many visually impaired people in society are not able to do things that non-visually impaired people can do. Simple things like texting on the internet are difficult for people with visual impairment. The BlindTalk discord bot can help visually impaired people to experience speech to text in a group chat setting online.

What it does

BlindTalk uses the assembly AI to change the speech of the visually impaired to text form in the group chat. Then the text of the group chat sent by other users will be changed to speech form for the visually impaired.

How we built it

We first created a discord bot to run on a discord server. Then implemented the text to speech feature and the speech to text feature to our test server.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we ran into are using API to send a text to speech and returning an audio clip with a discord bot. Another challenge we ran into was having conflicts with our developers using different programming languages. Also we found that Assembly AI's realtime speech detection is locked behind a paywall.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First, we are proud of ourselves to even thinking and creating a discord bot using assembly AI to utilize speech to text technology. Also we are proud of creating our website through HTML and CSS to show the non-visually impaired people about our BlindTalk bot.

What we learned

We learned that it's difficult for beginner programmers to create a discord bot using assembly AI to utilize speech to text and text to speech technology.

What's next for BlindTalk

We will update our website by adding more navigation tools and creating our website to be mobile app friendly. We are also willing to add emojis as a feature in the future.