Triv

Inspiration

Wanted to build an app that would foster interaction between people enjoying a sports match both at home and in the stands for the Sports, Arena & Entertainment Community Hackathon at SunTrust Park, Atlanta on Feb 17th, 2018 hosted by The FARM ATL and the BridgeCommunity

What it does

Triv is a trivia game app that uses a Game ID to link the Triv session to a live sports match. The lead user then generates a Group ID that is sent out to contacts so that they can join the session and play the trivia game against each other. Triv's backend builds trivia questions in real-time by listening and analyzing the audio of sports broadcasters commenting on a sports match. This data is then stored along with timestamps to create questions that center specifically around the current sports game.

How we built it

Backend is built using python and REST api calls to Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs. The Bing Speech API is used for speech-to-text transcription and the LUIS API is used for Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Challenges we ran into

Securing our idea quickly so that the application could be build during a less than 12hr hackathon. Using recordings of Sports Broadcasters saved locally for presenting the demo (testing the NLP with real-time speech was easier lol)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Sai's front-end was beautiful and Natalie's live demo for the judges succeeded. Won People's Choice Award of Droid Kit and Oculus Rift.

What's next for Triv

The FARM has expressed interest in seeing the building and deployment of Triv through to the end. Next steps for backend include linking real-time sports databases like "Fantasy Football" so that trivia questions will have even more subject-matter to be built from.

Built With

• bing-speech-api
• luis
• microsoft-cognitive-services
• python