EasyRead

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Inspiration

We've all experienced the stress and horror of being forced to speak in front of a large audience - having to remember and read hundreds or thousands of words with perfection. On top of all the pressure that comes with speaking, you also have the additional responsibility to follow along with your script. For those of us who suffer from speech or language disorders, this is frequently a nightmarish situation. We wanted to remove the multitasking from this stressful scenario, to enable those with such learning disabilities to perform their best.

What it does

EasyRead is an easily accessible and fast online tool that uses AI Speech Recognition to help you follow along a script automatically. It highlights and scrolls to the words to say next as you speak, making it a hands-free and fully synchronized experience that can even account for errors with our algorithm.

How we built it

We used Next.JS 14 and React Speech Recognition to create a smooth and responsive website, hosted on Vercel. Tailwind and Chakra UI were used to beautify the app.

Challenges we ran into

Storing of data was difficult since we messed up our web cookies since everything was supposed to be done server side

Accomplishments that we're proud of

EasyRead is fully functional and can be accessed from any modern device with a microphone - be it laptop, desktop or mobile, making it perfect for easy use.

What we learned

How to use Next Js 14 Storage of data

What's next for EasyRead

An upgraded speech recognition model, and a database for persistent storage of multiple scripts based on user accounts.

Built With

• next.js
• node.js
• react
• tailwind