Wellness and Life Assistant WALA

Inspiration

The inspiration for this was all of the great mobile apps that you find online to help with fitness. Becoming more and more accustomed to AI, we could see the value of Azure AI in leveraging human knowledge and helping to bridge the gap between developing new apps and what is already available.

What it does

The website uses Azure Speech recognition to allow people to speak a combination of food and size to get a calorie count. It also uses AI to formulate workout plans, meal plans, and to provide humor and general advice to speak to the mental and physical aspects of wellness.

How we built it

We used Github Copilot in the end to really help with developing the framework for displaying the returned data from Azure AI. It was so useful because as we fed it data it tracked previous answers and made us not have to rethink between components. We used our knowledge of React and Material to frame it in a modern UI. We built images using AI.

Challenges we ran into

Saving the audio file in the format we needed required setting up COOP and COEP. That seems to be stopping us from using some of our images. Also, the fact that the data can be returned in different flavors makes things hard sometimes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

That we finally got a submission done before the last day. It is not sunlight outside yet so this counts.

What we learned

When you set a deadline to finish you really need to dig in. Also, continue to check the date and time. Work and life may skew the timing in your head.