Amparo: applying for food aid without reading a single word
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Every year an enormous amount of aid money goes unclaimed. Not because it runs out, and not because nobody needs it, but because of something much stupider. The form is the wall. If you are blind, if you never learned to read well, or if you arrived last month and don't yet speak the language the form is printed in, the…
This is a submission for the Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition titled "Amparo: applying for food aid without reading a single word." The project aims to remove the barrier of unclaimed aid money by creating an aid application system that can be completed entirely by talking. The voice interface accepts answers in the applicant's own words and language, reads back what it understands, allows corrections, and produces a finished PDF to take to a local food bank.
The key feature is that it uses Google Gemini to conduct an interview with the user, asking questions one field at a time in simple language, and ElevenLabs to provide a warm human voice for the questions. The system is built with Flask, Google Gemini, and ElevenLabs, and is MIT licensed.
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