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#Team: TheHardKoders

So far, it's only me, Subhash Ramesh (coding24by7), on this team. But I expect to make great things in this hackathon!

About us

  • Subhash: I'm a 10th grade hacker. I'm doing my hackathon submission for the High School Hacker category.
  • I know many languages (C#.NET/Java/Javascript/HTML/CSS/jQuery/Node.JS/...)
  • I love to hack, hack, and hack!

Languages of expertise in this hackathon

  • Javascript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • jQuery
  • Node.JS, Express, Meteor (maybe)

My Project

For this hackathon, I selected the communication and translation theme.

ChatsApp is a global, realtime, and auto-translated chat app that allows users of different languages to speak in real-time (through the PubNub api) as if they were all speaking in the same language! The user specifies his/her language (Default: English), and (optionally) a user name. That's it! Then, the user can type or speak with the mic (only in Chrome) in their own language. However, other users will be recieving the chats in their own languages. In addition, it will be read to them in their language, so it mimics the Star Trek universal translation. The Star Trek universal translation really motivated me.

Microsoft is currently building a universal translation system into Skype, with the same idea, so that really got me interested.

This project addresses the theme behind the Communication theme, because it allows people who speak different languages, to speak with others of different languages in realtime, as if they all spoke the same language!

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of my project in the Koding IDE. It definitely looks better in the browser! ;)

http://d.pr/i/18MR5/1Vj6kDsB http://d.pr/i/1bsZ2/3ggArEKs http://d.pr/i/1ftCO/2zcRQsd4 http://d.pr/i/1fvrI/238rpPp7 http://d.pr/i/1fvrI

APIs used

  • jQuery for faster coding (write less, do more...)

-WebSpeech API (for text-to-speech and speech recognition)

-PubNub API (used extensively. this is what drives the realtime aspects of my app, like updated user information and incoming chats. Also greatly reduced the number of API calls made to my NodeJS Server!)

-Yandex Translation API (As you might have guessed, this API was used for fast translation over 44 different languages! Please do note that this App is on the free plan, hence there will be a limited number of API calls.