Blind Guru

Blind Guru

Blind Guru helps the blind use Twitter, hear to their Twitter feeds, create and delete tweets.

The problem Blind Guru solves

Blind Guru helps the visually impaired to use Twitter and other social media apps(yet to be implemented) with voice-enabled commands with more ease. Often the visually impaired use features like screen readers in which they have to scroll through their feed or seek the help of others. Blind Guru helps in the user experience of the visually impaired to use social media
Blind Guru Usage:
voice commands to use the app
"next": to read the next tweet,
"play": to play the tweet,
"pause":to pause the tweet
"previous": to play the previous tweet,
"create": to create a new tweet,
"delete": to delete the tweet

Challenges we ran into

We had issues with speech recognition as its version was incompatible with the react version. We downgraded the react version to solve the issue.
We also ran into a regenerate runtime error while deploying. The Beach hack team helped us in solving it by suggesting us to download the relevant npm package.
We had issues using the official Twitter API. Their documentation provided a better understanding.

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