Voltaire - Writing Tools

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  Make writing easier using Voltaire’s Rewriting Tools

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  Create Key Points for any text using Voltaire

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  Summarize any text into points using Voltaire

Inspiration

Our primary inspiration was Writing Tools as part of the Apple Intelligence which was recently released by Apple with its latest macOS update. They have been very helpful for certain tasks, and they have eliminated our need to have a separate extension for tasks such as proofreading, rewriting, etc.

However, Apple Intelligence is only available on select Apple Devices and we wanted something similar for other platforms too. Since Chrome is available for almost every platform, the announcement of built-in AI in the upcoming versions of Chrome was quite intriguing for us.

We decided to bring a similar suite of Writing Tools powered by Chrome's built-in AI.

What it does

Voltaire uses Chrome's Built-in AI to provide a set of Writing Tools to aid and enhance the writing experience in the browser. Voltaire can proofread, rewrite, and summarize any text inside Chrome.

Select any text on any webpage, and Voltaire will help you summarize it as well as help you create key points from it to make the information easier to digest.

Voltaire can also help you write better whether it is emails, blog posts, or anything else with its accurate proofreading and rewriting capabilities.

And the best part is that Chrome's Built-in AI does it all locally so your data never leaves your device.

How we built it

Voltaire is a Chrome Extension that is powered entirely by Chrome's Built-in AI. For the frontend, we've used React and Tailwind UI.

Challenges we ran into

Since the built-in AI is still in early stages, we mostly ran into problems with the Prompt API. Coming up with suitable prompts for proofreading and rewriting in specific tones was tricky.

But after quite a bit of testing, we were able to get it working as intended.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

When we started building the extension, we had a faint idea of what we wanted in mind. But as we kept building, the extension slowly came together and we are proud of how minimal and lightweight it is.

What we learned

We learnt that prompts are key to making any AI model generate expected results. Once we got the prompts right, the development of the extension went a lot smoother for us.

What's next for Voltaire - Writing Tools

We are planning to add even better rewriting capabilities to Voltaire's future versions. We plan to introduce much broader tone settings for rewriting any given text.

Built With

• ai
• chrome
• javascript
• react
• tailwind