Inspiration
If you've ever been to a restaurant or public establishment of any sort, you might know how hard it is to have your questions answered before actually going to that place. How's the food? How clean is the place? How friendly are the staff? All of these things are good to know beforehand, but searching through Yelp, Google, and other websites for reviews can be a pain especially when you're looking to get something specific answered.
What it does
Inspired by Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle who is the de facto "travel director" of the castle, Calcifer.ai makes travelling to establishments easy by scraping the internet for existing knowledge of any establishment that you're thinking of visiting and answers any questions you might have about the place without your having to leave the comfort of your couch. You can search up places nearby (or far, but it will prioritize places nearby), and look at details, or ask Calcifer some questions!
How we built it
We used natural language processing in combination with a number of different APIs and webscraping tools and hosted a backend with Microsoft Azure.
We used Flutter for the front end.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
What's next for Calcifer.ai - Virtual Travel Assistant
We made it so that Calcifer can respond to questions in Spanish. A next step would be to implement the option to switch the UI into Spanish.
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