La Platica

Inspiration

Stepping out of their comfort zone to build something we can use every day. Wanting to prove that Hispanic immigrants can not only learn a new verbal language but code many! It is called La Platica because it translates to "the conversation" in Spanish and that is what we want to promote to the people who want to learn English.

What it does

The User types out a question in Spanish and the chatbox answers the question on the interface and says it verbally back in Spanish.

How I built it

I used python and downloaded some python modules such as tkinter for the GUI and chatterbox, spacy for training the chatbot to answer the questions in Spanish verbally.

Challenges I ran into

Module error installing Spacy. Could not seem to fix the error and would mess up running the GUI. Family time, working together with someone who has mother responsibilities was difficult because we had to allocate time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was so nervous in entering a hackathon but entering it with a parent made it not so scary anymore. I'm glad both of us got to learn python in almost a matter of 2 days! We became Latins in tech!

What I learned

Looking up some installation errors on stack overflow is helpful. Updating software can make a difference on how fast the program can run. Python has so many libraries that make it easy to use. I am used to coding in C++ or C#.