Four-Project Series
- prerequisites
- Working with npm, HTML, JavaScript, and Fetch API • knowledge of CSS concepts will be helpful
- skills learned
- Building UI widgets with HTML and Tailwind CSS • communicating with external APIs
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AI is the future—and Smart Solutions, Inc. knows it! That’s why they’ve called on you to build EchoBuddy, a new AI-powered voice assistant designed to help their customers interact with smart-home technology more effectively. In this liveProject series, you’ll build EchoBuddy with standard web technologies combined with third-party API services and OpenAI’s powerful industry-leading GPT model. You’ll work with the Web Speech API to capture user queries and generate spoken responses, and utilize the SvelteKit framework, the OpenAI JavaScript library, and Tailwind CSS to build an intuitive and attractive app with rich UI widgets.
This series requires use of the OpenAI platform, which is a paid service. For the purposes of this series, $5 should be sufficient.
These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.
This was a fun, insightful, fast-paced, engaging project. It uses modern technologies, which are well mixed to provide a solid foundation to deliver the intended functionality. The theme is a popular need, with instantaneous value, delivered through an accessible voice interface. It was a great developer and user experience!
here's what's included
Project 1 Basic Voice Chatbot
In this liveProject, you’ll create an MVP of a very basic voice chatbot for Smart Solutions, Inc.'s new AI tool EchoBuddy. You'll begin by creating the foundational app with a simple text input, then integrate OpenAI's chat completion API to enable intelligent responses. Next, you'll add voice capabilities using the Web Speech API, allowing users to speak their queries and hear spoken responses. Finally, you'll expand EchoBuddy's abilities by connecting to external services, including a fun integration with an API that serves up dad jokes on demand.
This liveProject requires use of the OpenAI platform, which is a paid service. For the purposes of this project, $5 should be sufficient.
Project 2 Weather
In this liveProject, you’ll enhance the AI-powered voice assistant EchoBuddy with weather capabilities. Your challenge is to transform EchoBuddy from a basic chatbot into a sophisticated weather assistant that can respond to natural language queries like "What's the weather in Boston?" with accurate forecasts. You'll start with static data integration, then progress to working with the OpenWeather API, implement geocoding to handle any location request, and finally create an intuitive weather widget that displays conditions visually in the browser.
This liveProject requires use of the OpenAI platform, which is a paid service. For the purposes of this project, $5 should be sufficient.
Project 3 News and Stock Quotes
In this liveProject, you’ll transform the basic EchoBuddy AI assistant into a comprehensive information hub that can deliver breaking news headlines and stock market data through natural conversation. You'll integrate with NPR's news feed to provide the latest stories, implement stock tracking using the polygon.io API to fetch market prices and create sleek visual widgets that display both news and financial data.
This liveProject requires use of the OpenAI platform, which is a paid service. For the purposes of this project, $5 should be sufficient.
Project 4 Movie Information
In this liveProject, you’ll give AI assistant EchoBuddy a new superpower: becoming a movie expert. Your task is to transform the AI assistant into a comprehensive entertainment guide that can answer questions about everything from current theatrical releases to actor filmographies. Using the TMDB API, you'll enable EchoBuddy to respond to natural language queries about movies playing now, help users discover an actor's most popular works, and provide detailed information about specific films, complete with visual elements like movie posters and actor photos.
This liveProject requires use of the OpenAI platform, which is a paid service. For the purposes of this project, $5 should be sufficient.
books resources
When you start each of the projects in this series, you'll get full access to the following books for 90 days.
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Building an AI Voice Assistant project for free
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- five seats for your team
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Overall very good. I feel the content struck a good balance between too hard and too easy. it was just enough to be able to understand what was being done.
Prerequisites
This liveProject series is for frontend or full stack web developers who want to start working with AI. You’ll need to be confident in JavaScript programming and have some experience with Svelte, Tailwind CSS, and CSS concepts.
TOOLS
- Basic HTML
- Basic CSS
- Intermediate JavaScript
- Intermediate Svelte
- Intermediate Node.js/npm
- CSS styling and layout concepts
- Structuring HTML elements
- HTML forms
features
- Self-paced
- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
- While within the liveProject platform, get help from fellow participants and even more help with paid sessions with our expert mentors.
- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
