Digital
Recipe Sidekick (www.digitalrecipesidekick.com)
An interactive digital recipe reader and editable
cookbook that utilizes speech recognition and text to speech generation to
engage the user in a dialog and help them follow recipes.
Technical Challenges
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Develop
speech recognition pipeline using Media-Player, Speech Recognition, and Text-to-Speech
APIs.
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Apply
natural language processing techniques to recognize what the user said and
appropriately respond despite speech recognition errors.
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Model
recipe domain and convert free text from user input, arbitrary user files,
and web pages into the recipes.
Accomplishments
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Currently
has 15000 active users and growing.
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Placed
in the top 20 lifestyle apps out of over 2000 apps in Google’s Developer
Challenge.
Poker Pro Calculator
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Technical Challenges
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Develop
an intuitive information dashboard to alert players of relevant information
and help them decide when to bet.
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Create
an efficient user interface that allows users to quickly adjust the current
state of the game.
Accomplishments
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To
be released
Risk Game Calculator
A handy calculator for likely outcomes of battles
in the Risk board game.
Technical Challenges
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Develop
simulation to approximate outcomes of 5000 possible battles.
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Create
a user interface to allow the user to quickly experiment with different
scenarios.
Accomplishments
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Currently
has 420 active users.
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Simulation
accurately provided data for all battle combinations
Hello Cow
An excellent way to entertain a young child for a
few moments. It is also guaranteed to make older children of any age chuckle.
Technical Challenges
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Create
the simplest app possible, in as little time as possible.
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Use
exception handling so the cow doesn’t moo too much and crash.
Accomplishments
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Development
time: 2 hours
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Sold
10 copies, paid for coffee consumed while developing.
