Speech Helper

Inspiration

I'm in a communications class this semester and was thinking about how a lot of people tend to use too many crutch words when they talk.

What it does

The user can choose a .txt file transcript of their speech, and the program checks for occurrences of an automatically generated list of crutch words. It then shows the user what crutch words they use, and how many times they use it.

How I built it

I used java to build the internal workings and the external GUI.

Challenges I ran into

There were a lot of features I thought about implementing but ended up not having any time to implement, so I had to decide later in the night which features were necessary and which I could leave out of the base application.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud to have built a working program in 24 hours, even if it isn't as complex as I initially imagined it to be.

What I learned

First of all, I learned that making something cohesive in 24 hours is really difficult. In terms of coding, I learned a lot about making something from scratch, particularly doing so in Java (due to the requirement of objects), and I worked with GUI in Java for the first time!

What's next for Speech Helper

Currently, the user is unable to edit the list of words, so I definitely want to add that feature. Also, I'd like to add a feature where the user can go through the occurrences of each crutch word and see what their speech would look like if the crutch word was deleted or replaced with a better alternative. Lastly, I want to add a speech recognition feature to the program, so that the user can directly upload sound files for which the program will automatically create a transcript to scan.

Built With

• java