Travel Talk

Alice The Chat Bot was built through Google Cloud
Twilio and Whatsapp automated message

Inspiration

Traveling is the joy and hobby of many people. Being able to spend time in a new place and enjoying the new culture makes lives become more meaningful. As the pandemic is coming to an end, the need and passion for travel of people are increasing. Even though English is the common language and many local people know English, it is still important to have some translation tools that can assist people while traveling to communicate with the locals better.

These facts point to the need for having a site that not only assists travelers with booking hotel rooms, flights, taxis, etc. but also helps them communicate well with the locals. Because of these requirements, Travel Talk came to life.

Our site, Travel Talk, provides booking services for hotel rooms, flight, travel, taxis, etc. We also provide translation services from English to French, Japanese, and Hindi (Indian). In the future, we plan to expand our translation service to more languages.

Further, we have a chat bot , called Alice, that assists with the booking and explains about our translation service. After the booking is done, an automatic message is sent to the customer through WhatsApp and confirms the booking. Further, customers can send a text message to our phone number and an automatic text as well as phone call will reach out to them for further assistance.

What it does

Provide booking service for flight, hotel room, taxis, etc,
Provide translation services from English to French, Japanese, and Indian. Customers can speak directly into the microphone and the site will translate and read the translated words out loud.
A chat bot assists customers with booking and questions about translation service
Automatic booking confirmation message is sent to customer's WhatsApp when they book a service
When customers send messages to travel talk phone number, an automatic message is sent back and automatic phone call from travel talk is set to reach out to customers and assist them.

How we built it

HTML
CSS
Python
Google Cloud
Google Translate
Github
Go Daddy
Twilio
Diaglogflow
Social Intents
WhatsApp API
Apple Speech

Challenges we ran into

The first challenge involves brainstorming ideas. To reach a common agreement about the project, we had to discuss and reject a lot of ideas, and fortunately came up with our Travel Talk the next one was we had limited time to complete this project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to deploy the site, set up chat bot using Google Cloud, set up Twilio connection to WhatsApp, set up the translation between English and French, English and Indian, English and Japanese

What we learned

In just nearly 40 hours, we have met so many challenges and overcome most of those. That is what brings us many exciting moments, new knowledge and precious experience.