Athayna / hsrm-fairy-tale-mirror

Mirror of our group project for the course "Human Computer Interaction" at Hochschule RheinMain in 5th semester involving a voice controlled smart mirror for children

Fairy Tale Mirror

A project for the course "Human Computer Interaction" at Hochschule RheinMain in 5th semester involving a voice controlled smart mirror for children

Features

• Customization: Customizable user profile to engage the user on a personal level
• Brushing Teeth: Motivates children to brush teeth
• Fairy Tales: Reads a number of locally stored fairy tales
• Weather data: Fetches real time weather data for responses based on that data
• Learning Games: Games that teach the child to read or do math

Development

The application was build within one semester. The development process contained finding a topic, planning the software and developing this prototype.

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
• 16GB SD-Card
• HDMI display
• Framed one-way mirror

Requirements:

Software requirements

Install Python and in any command line run:

pip install speechrecognition gtts requests pillow pyaudio playsound==1.2.2 opencv-python pandas numpy text2num

You will need a window manager and desktop environment installed.

Hardware requirements

• Speakers
• Microphone

Usage:

Clone the repository.

In any command line, navigate to the project folder and start the program with:

python main.py