BlueGuide

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Inspiration

We wanted to make personalized, informational tours more accessible by bringing them to your fingertips!

What it does

Just put in some airpods and start listening to fun facts and interesting stories about the buildings and places around you as you explore a city.

How we built it

We built an iOS app in Swift and a backend using Python. We used location services, MapKit, GPT-5.1, and fish audio to create a live narration of your surroundings.

Challenges we ran into

Text and audio streaming for fast, responsive narration was one of our biggest challenges. We had to stream text and audio in real time to the user's device for nearly instant playback.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Real-time narration of your surroundings.

What we learned

How to build an iOS app, how to stream audio, how to use location services and calculate distances.

What's next for BlueGuide

Conversational awareness is almost done! This will bring BlueGuide to the next level, as you'll be able to engage by asking questions or asking for more details.