RetroTubing

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  RetroTubing in action

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  Part 2

Inspiration

We are inspired by the 80s and 90s retro aesthetic. With phenomena like V-Tubing and livestreaming, what if content creators or regular people could make themselves look like an early-era RPG character, with retro text bubble and everything?

What it does

RetroTubing records you in a retro filter and puts what you're saying in a speech bubble live, like a character from old RPGs like Final Fantasy. You can download your recording for use in streaming services like YouTube.

How we built it

We built it with React, AssemblyAI, and Node.js.

Challenges we ran into

• Using HTML Canvas to make the recorded part was hard, as it uses different protocols than regular HTML.
• Using WebSockets to facilitate live speech-to-text using AssemblyAI was pretty difficult.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We helped two new hackathon beginners learn some HTML, JS, NodeJS, express, and React.
• We got a functioning app that is pretty fun to use.

What we learned

• How to use AssemblyAI and HTML Canvas.
• Several members learned some programming basics they will keep for life!

What's next for RetroTubing

• We would like to use machine vision to analyze positions of users' eyes, mouth etc. to make them look more like a retro video game character.
• Make better filters and fix message formatting.

Built With

• assemblyai
• react