Bartleby

The personal assistant you never knew you always needed

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What it does

Bartleby is a garden gnome based personal assistant who can confidently answer any question you throw at him.

How we built it

Bartleby is powered by a raspberry pi that uses a speech-to-text engine, the Open AI API and a speech synthesis engine.

Challenges we ran into

Initially we wanted to run all of the audio I/O through an arduino. We designed and built a speaker and microphone circuit but had a very difficult time reconciling the sample speeds of the analog components with the standard audio inputs.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Wiring together all of the APIs with a simple voice/text interface is one of the most polished hackathon projects many of our team members have done. We were also very efficient, hitting our MVP much earlier than expected.

What we learned

We learned the limitations of AI assistants as well as the hurdles that can come from trying to use raw analog inputs and outputs with existing operating systems, file formats, and conventional practices

What's next for Bartleby

Onboard audio I/O and a smoother user experience overall. As well as the ability to answer more specialized questions in domains the AI isn't really equipped for.

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