ICANTREAD

Huge blocks of text fill us with a sense of dread, where we want to shout "I can't read!" Luckily, we have created ICANTREAD, an AI-powered application to make reading picturesque and painless.

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Inspiration

College reading assignments can sometimes be devastating, especially when there is a large block of code with nothing but words on it. Some of the reading assignments can be 5000-10,000 words a week, which makes it almost impossible to get started. My biggest fear about reading a big article like this is mainly two things.

  1. I don't want to read it because it's too hard and too boring.
  2. I read it, but after reading it, I still know nothing.

So to solve this problem. We created this brand new software called ICANTREAD to better help people read long articles with less pain and more gain.

What it does

The app mainly have two functions targeted two different concerns:

  1. Better and faster reading experience:

We create both text-to-speech translation and image generation to give more information through visual and audio systems, so readers can better grasp the idea of the passage.

  1. Better understanding of the reading.

We create a summary title at the beginning of each paragraph and a general summary at the beginning of the article to help the reader understand the logistics of the article. We also created an interactive quiz at the end of the article so that the reader can test his understanding based on the quiz result.

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

  1. Figuring out how to make the generated quiz better – we needed the quiz to be in a specific format in

  2. Order to parse it correctly.

  3. Using python & flask together, a new tech stack

4.running out of AI generation credits

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. The app works and is completed!

  2. We think that we will actually use and refine this in the future – look out for the official deployment

What we learned

  1. Sometimes vanillaJS is pretty convenient for making quick prototypes

  2. It’s easy to lose time getting bogged down in specific tech problems related to the platform, but if one solution doesn’t work, we can try to think of 3 more and hopefully one will solve the issue

  3. How to call apis

  4. ChatGPT can code really fast

What's next for ICANTREAD

  1. Better control output of AI-generated images – how can we ensure that they are accurate?

  2. Simplify / change the tone of each paragraph

  3. Light and and paper dark mode

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