BestVoice is a mobile web app designed to provide Best Buy customers with a personalized and optimized in-store experience. Our team targeted a major demographic within Vancouver by trying to alleviate the language barrier that immigrants experience. Through BestVoice, non-English speakers can use a smart phone to ask questions and have a conversation with Best Buy employees in their own languages. Our demo can be reached through this link: https://pranavnarang.github.io/bizhacks2019.github.io/
Simply follow these steps to ask questions in your own language:
- Select a language you want to speak in (Currently available only in Chinese and French)
- Select a product category which you have questions about
- You will then be prompted to meet a Best Buy representative at aisle #
- Once you are with the Best Buy representative, simply tab the bar to start speaking in your own language
Here are screenshots of a step-by-step tutorial:
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Built with:
- HTML
- CSS
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
APIs used:
- API for converting voice to text
- API for translating text
- API for converting text to speeching
Among a team of 5 members, I was responsible for integrating the 3 APIs together. Without the financial support, our team decided not to utilize Google Translate in our project. In order to translate, I had to first convert the speech of the user to a text. The text would then be translated into another text in the language of the recipient. Finally, the text of the recipient would then be converted into a speech for the recipient to hear. Additionally, I was also responsible for creating front-end components using HTML and style them using CSS and Bootstrap.
Without my amazing team, BestVoice would always be just an idea. We all worked so hard and slept for 2-3 hours to make sure that we deliver our demo to the judges and the audience. Each team member had a role and by working together we were qualified for the Final round and received 5th place among 44 teams!
