Kaiwa

Inspiration

I have always wanted to use technology to do good for others. Given the state of technology, I realized we can make it easy for deaf people to communicate with others by using speech to text, and text to speech (not yet implemented in app)

What it does

It does speech to text in real time on camera view. This way, people can look at other person's face as he/she speaks. Doing so allow deaf people to have similar experience to actually having a conversation with many others

How I built it

I used swift mostly. I also wanted to integrate firebase and store information necessary on real time database, but time did not allow..

Challenges I ran into

Presenting camera view was more challenging that I thought originally.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Well, it works!!

What I learned

I came up with a neat way to make network layer. Too bad, I did not have time to actually implement those...

What's next for Kaiwa

Continue on integration with firebase (3 hours) Text to speech on same screen (2 hours) ore research in MessageKit Having a editable text field that suits the rest of app design (?? hours)

Built With

• firebase
• swift