Pr0nuc!ate

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Inspiration

Some people with speech disorders, such as those caused by stroke, cerebral palsy, or autism, may have difficulty accessing speech therapy services. We wanted to provide an accessible and personalized alternative that can be used without geographical or financial barriers.

What it does

Pr0nuc!ate is an AI-driven speech therapy app that provides personalized exercises, real-time feedback, and progress tracking for users with speech disorders. It uses voice recognition to assess pronunciation, articulation, and fluency while offering engaging, gamified exercises to encourage consistent practice.

How we built it

The webpage was developed with Vite and React to ensure cross-platform accessibility. The backend was developed with Mongo.db and Node.js. Our voice -recognition software is a product of Google API and our AI chatbot is powered by Cloudflare.AI.

Challenges we ran into

The AI-integration and speech-recognition posed a significant challenge, one that we dealt with for the majority of the first 12 hours.

What we learned

We gained valuable insights into speech recognition technologies, the nuances of speech therapy, and how to design an AI-driven solution that is both effective and user-friendly.

Cybersecurity

We were inspired by the way 1Password cares for its users by having various secure methods to save their user information. This inspired our team to consider various methods to ensure the safety of information that we store for our users. For instance, we had never worked with databases before. For this project, we learned MongoDB and learned to integrate the database with Next.js to create a backend to pull saved information that our users had. We saved the usernames and passwords in the database and used the backend to pull from it. As well, other features we implemented were tracking the IP addresses of the various logins to ensure that the user understands who and where people are logging in using their account. This ensures privacy and security. Lastly, we added a recaptcha to ensure that no bots were spamming the website and to ensure user information security.

Accessibility

Our website is centered around accessibility. For instance, we spent hours and hours of research learning about the speech impairment space; understanding the people in this space, (elderly or children). Afterwards, we tailored our design, color schemes, typography, games, all of the design was based on our users' needs. These design principes implemented are not only applicable and useful to our targeted demographic but also to other who may be using our website to practice speaking in public whether that be due to anxiety or nervousness.