Martlet's Quill

Inspiration

We wanted to use AI to build a webapp that helps kids enhance their reading and writing skills in a fun way. This project leaverages our different skillsets to produce a product that can be used by kids from a diverse age range with the ability to funnel their creativity into something educational.

What it does

Users start by answering a series of five different question on characters, setting, and events. This information is then fed to the Chatgpt API as background information for the beginning of story generation. After each paragraph generation, the program will ask the user to select from three options on how the story should proceed. Instead of typing responses, user can also speak into their microphone and the audio will be transcribed. After up to ten responses, the program will terminate and present the finishe story on a new page with an image accompanying each paragraph. Past stories will also be saved for future viewing pleasure.

How we built it

It was built mainly using react with a MERN stack, and python to connect to the API.

Challenges we ran into and what we learned.

We had many challenges with react as many of us were new to using it. However, it was a learning experience and we came away with many new skills. We're proud of the interactive UI and the implementation of the microphone feature.

What's next for Martlet's Quill

The webapp is not entirely complete to its desired final form as the story creation page still needs some work. Next steps would also include implementing the microphone feature in each stage of the story generation.