Mally : Your AI - Mental Ally

"Mally: Your 24/7 AI Mental Ally - Breaking down barriers to mental wellness through instant, judgment-free support and personalized self-care tools."

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Inspiration

  • Being Neurodivergent Myself as I have ADHD, there are many times in my life when I can't bring my personal issues with anyone maybe because I don't know how to word them or I don't feel open or comfortable enough to share with people.
  • My inspiration to develop Mally was to make a platform for people who go through the same stuff, when they're anxious at 2AM and have no one to express their thoughts to.

What it does

  • Mally is an AI powered mental help friend that you can use to chat and express your feelings.
  • It basically acts as a helping friend that hears you out, asks you why you feel a certain way and tries its best to comfort you.
  • It also contains a breathing section where the user can do breathing exercises to relax them.
  • Moreover, it contains an emotional calendar where you can choose how you feel each day and assess your mood over a period of time to see how the application impacts your mood.

How I built it

  • I built Mally using React for the frontend.
  • I used FastAPI in the backend.
  • I also used the ElevenLabs API to generate the AI voice.

Challenges we ran into

  • There were multiple challenges I ran into including things such as ElevenLabs not accepting audio inputs from my browser.
  • Choosing the right models to make sure the conversation mimics real-time conversation as much as possible.
  • Complex WebSocket code.
  • Many more issues along the way.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

  • I'm genuinely proud of everything I've done at this hackathon.
  • Developing all the components of Mally.
  • Meeting new people.
  • Looking at new projects and gaining insight from them.

What we learned

  • I learned how to incorporate external APIs.
  • I learned socket programming.
  • I learned how LLMs and other AI programming interfaces take audio input.
  • I also learned how to incorporate different external frontend components to make my application user friendly.

What's next for Mally : Your AI - Mental Ally

  • I really want to take this project further into production by making this accessible to the public, most likely on a cheap subscription basis as it will cost some money to keep this website up and running.
  • I would also like to add more features such as a meditation section, where a user can meditate.
  • Preferably make this into an actual realtime AI voice chat using live sockets and the realtime OpenAI API. (I would've done it already if it wasn't this expensive...)

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