Inspiration
Living in self-isolation showed me how important communicating is, and stress is not unique to humans. People suffering from alexithymia has issues in communicating with others because of the difficulty they face in understanding emotions. When I learned that pets are suffering from serious anxiety due to this pandemic, I was moved to use technology to help them.
What it does
Willow is a python app that leverages the power of Google Cloud Services to identify human emotions and dog emotions. It is voice-operated.
How I built it
The app uses python as its programming language. I trained the machine learning model using AutoML. The app uses Google Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs to enable the voice operations.
Challenges I ran into
This was my first time using python explicitly.
What I learned
I learned that python is an excellent language for machine learning purposes.
What's next for Willow
Willow can only identify the emotion of a dog and a human. The next step would be add the emotion detection feature of common pets.
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