text2tune

Inspiration

Speech is beautiful. We wanted people to be able to hear music created from their words.

What it does

Interprets an SMS message as music, and calls back the number with the song that was created.

How we built it

We used the twilio API to interpret the SMS messages and save the callback number, then a sentiment analysis api and a library we created to process it as sheet music, then a synthesizer in python to create a .wav file, and the twilio api once again to give the user a phone call

Challenges we ran into

API integration with many APIs

Accomplishments that we're proud of

That we accomplished our initial goal regardless of the many parts

What we learned

The ins and outs of flask and how it works with APIs (as well as some music theory)

What's next for text2tune

Adding rythm, adding beats, modulation of important words. Possibly sending a gif with a corresponding color representation of the sentiment as well. More aesthetic code.

Built With

• flask
• natural-language-processing
• pysynth
• python
• twilio