Inspiration
So it all started when Roshni was telling us about coming over from India. That got us thinking - what if we made an app that could help people communicate across languages? She pitched the idea and we all jumped in, bouncing ideas off each other. Together we came up with something way cooler than any of us could've done solo.
What it does
WX takes what you say and turns it into text, plus it can read text out loud. Right now we're focusing on helping deaf folks understand what hearing people are saying. But we've got bigger plans - we want to make it useful for all sorts of people with different abilities.
How we built it
Google APIs, Java, Android Studio
Challenges we ran into
One of the biggest challenges we faced is that we were not able to get the speech to speech translation to work the first time around.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting that speech-to-text working the first time was huge! We spent forever digging through docs and tweaking code until we finally got it to spit out exactly what we were saying. That felt pretty amazing.
What we learned
We really got the hang of working together under pressure. Everyone had their own piece of the puzzle, but nobody was too proud to ask for help when they got stuck.
What's next for WX
We would like to add emotion detection using keywords and facial recognition. That could be helpful for people on the spectrum and folks who are blind. Furthermore, we want to able to analyze pictures for blind people so they can "see" through sound.
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