What happens if you find yourself in a dangerous situation and calling 911 isn't an option? How can you alert an emergency contact without drawing attention to yourself? New York City does not currently support texting emergency help lines.
Our app allows users to quickly and silently describe their situation. It builds a detailed message of the danger and then uses Twilio to turn the text into speech. In our prototype, it calls an emergency contact with this information- but it could be easily converted to contact 911 instead.
Silent 911 falls under the crime/law enforcement option for the Fueled NYC Hackathon.
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