DesktopBuddy

Random friend 1
Random friend 2
Random friend 3

Inspiration

Ever since the pandemic, people’s lives have been significantly impacted in many different ways. Especially people's distance from friends and families. It has never been more important for us to focus on people's mental wellness because all people see now are computer screens. They wake up to computer screens, and all interactions are done online and people barely get a chance to go outside and hang out with friends. So we are bringing everyone a virtual desktop friend with our program. When the user runs this program, the program will transcribe users’ speech to text in real time. When a keyword is detected, indicating that the user is feeling depressed, down, or lonely, a little desktop friend, which will act as an emotional support, will pop out on the user’s desktop.

What it does

When the program detects a keyword from the keyword list, which contains the following: lonely, miss you, sad, depressed, friend, start, buddy, cry, bored, a virtual friend will pop up on the desktop