RowdEase

Inspiration

We noticed that applications with voice recognition make life easier. We also noticed web design usually leaves out people with disabilities. With these two things in mind, we wanted to create a program that allows a user to speak in order to navigate a website.

What it does

Our program uses a person's microphone to capture user input. The program then tries to match this input to a preset action, if there's a match it executes that action.

Challenges we ran into

Our original plan was to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) in order to process the user's input. This was too time consuming and we ended up going with preset mapped actions. We also had some difficulty setting up the speech recognition as it requires many dependencies.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of our ability to set up the speech recognition despite how tedious it was. This along with our mock website that allows use to demonstrate our program. We are also proud of a working end product despite roadblocks and time crunch.

What we learned

Superficial design of a product is critical. We also learned that our product develops as we bring it to life. We also learned that AI takes time to work with.