Inspiration
Many Youth and children in africa are not literate. Many can't read and write. This is often due to the lack of resource to those country. As an African myself i understand the need, and what the lack of literacy can produce. That why i want to contribute to help make it better, by creating a system that will facilitate the education system. in Africa for both the teacher and student.
What it does
The website have four sections: quiz, alphabet, maths and books
The quiz section have a set of sentence, that the user will have to repeat clearly and the AI voice will catch the pitch of the sentence and if it match you will proceed to the next level.
The alphabet section, help the user with the pronunciation, they can type any letter and it will return the sound of that letter.
The Maths section, is a set of random Arithmetic, that can help the user practice some basic arithmetic.
The Book section is meant to help to user get a quick access to any books, that they will be in normal circumstance difficult to get, they will be able to download a pdf version of the book listed on the website.
How I built it
I build it using a Speech recognition program, that catch the pitch when you speak. I used dialogFlow and diverse technology to catch what is missing in the sentence, in case of a wrong wording. the project have a login system where the user can register and login.
Challenges I ran into
As The speech recognition is still a emerging technology, i run into some difficulties on many browser when i was developing the program. for now the program works well on google chrome but have some small difficulties on firefox and safari.
What I learned
I did learn on some of the most important issue africa is facing right now, and what i can do to help.
What's next for Help Africa Improve Literacy.
I plan next to integrate this project to something even bigger and better, with new ideas, adding external tools like alexa or google assistant, so the user can talk directly to the program even without relying on a browser or the internet.
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