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DyslexiaPilot AI — The AI Companion for Students with Dyslexia

A student-centric, multi-feature platform designed to make learning more accessible, confident, and stress-free.

Inspiration

Students with dyslexia face challenges that most others never see — slow reading speed, decoding difficulties, confidence loss, information overload, and high exam pressure.
What started as a simple idea for a reading assistant grew into a mission: build a single AI-powered platform that understands dyslexic students and adapts to their learning needs.

We were inspired by:

Real challenges dyslexic students face in classrooms and exam preparation.
The lack of unified tools that combine reading support, writing help, quizzes, summaries, notes, and mental wellness.
The desire to make education more accessible, inclusive, and student-friendly.
The hackathon theme: “Build tools that help students.”

DyslexiaPilot AI is built by students, for students who deserve tools that empower—not overwhelm—them.

What It Does

DyslexiaPilot AI is a multi-purpose web app designed as a complete learning and wellbeing companion for students with dyslexia.

Key Modules

Adaptive Text Reader: Read any text with options to simplify complex language, generate summaries, and listen to an AI-powered audio narration. You can also scan text from an image.
AI Writing Assistant: Get real-time help as you write. The assistant corrects spelling (including common dyslexic patterns like b/d reversals), explains grammar simply, and offers a voice-to-text option. You can also rephrase sentences to improve clarity.
Reading Practice: Practice reading aloud and receive friendly, encouraging feedback from an AI coach designed to be emotionally supportive.
Interactive Games: Engage in fun exercises designed to strengthen literacy skills in a low-pressure environment. Games include:
- Word Scramble: Unscramble letters to form a word.
- Sound Match: Listen to a word and choose the correct spelling from a list of homophones.
- Rhyme Time: Find and match pairs of rhyming words.
- Spell Check: Identify the correctly spelled word from a list of common misspellings.
- Letter Hunt: Find a specific target letter in a grid of distracting letters.
Quiz Forge: Generate practice quizzes from any text to help you study and retain information.
Mental Health Check-in: A private space to log your mood, get supportive suggestions from an AI coach, reflect in a private journal, and practice guided breathing exercises.
Community Hub: A dedicated space to connect with peers and mentors who understand the journey with dyslexia.
Personalized Settings: Adjust the theme (light/dark), font size, and line height to create the most comfortable reading experience for you.

All modules work together to support reading, writing, studying, revision, and mental wellness.

How We Built It

Tech Stack

Framework: Next.js (with App Router)
UI Library: React
Language: TypeScript
Styling: Tailwind CSS
UI Components: ShadCN UI
Generative AI: Firebase Genkit

Core Architecture

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|      Client (Browser)          |
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             | User Interaction (e.g., clicks a button)
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|   Server (Next.js App Router)  |
|      (Server Actions)          |
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             | Function Call (e.g., `simplifyText(text)`)
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|       AI Layer (Genkit)        |
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             | API Request
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|  Google Generative AI Models   |
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AI Flows Built

assist-writing: Analyzes text for spelling and grammar errors, providing corrections and simple explanations tailored for users with dyslexia.
generate-audio-narration: Converts a string of text into a natural-sounding audio narration, which is used in the Adaptive Text Reader and the Sound Match game.
generate-quiz-flow: Creates multiple-choice or open-ended quiz questions based on a provided block of text, powering the Quiz Forge.
get-coping-suggestion: Provides a short, actionable, and empathetic suggestion based on a user's selected mood in the Mental Health Check-in.
get-journal-feedback: Analyzes a user's journal entry to determine its sentiment and provides a supportive, non-judgmental reflection with gentle, actionable advice if the sentiment is negative.
get-reading-feedback: Compares a user's spoken text against an original sentence and generates encouraging, emotionally supportive feedback for the Reading Practice feature.
scan-and-convert-text: Uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract plain text from an uploaded image, allowing users to digitize text from books or documents.
simplify-text-for-dyslexia: Rewrites complex text into a simpler format with shorter sentences and more common words to improve readability.
summarize-text-for-review: Generates a concise summary of a long piece of text for quick review.

Process

We rapidly prototyped each module, integrated flows one by one, then polished the UI using accessibility-focused design (open dyslexic fonts, high contrast, larger spacing).

Challenges We Ran Into

Designing for accessibility while keeping the platform feature-rich
Creating dyslexia-aware text simplification without losing meaning
Combining multiple modules while keeping the app fast
Genkit hot-reload conflicts with Next.js dev server
Building a large multi-module app in less than 48 hours

Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

Built a complete accessibility-first AI platform during the hackathon
Designed an experience that reduces cognitive load for dyslexic students
Integrated 10+ AI-powered features into one seamless tool
Created modules that support:
- reading
- writing
- studying
- revision
- exam prep
- mental wellness
Delivered a project perfectly aligned with the theme:
“Build something that helps students.”