As part of Penn State's Business Experience for Undergraduate - a 6-week intensive program that prepares aspiring entrepreneurs, teams were given 1 and a half weeks to come up with a rough business plan and a minimum viable product, and market it to potential customers.

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Through multiple product ideas, our team first wanted to design a set of speech therapy tools to help children with lisp. However, after speaking to speech therapist and local entrepreneurs, we had decided to scrap the idea due to impracticality. We had then pivoted the idea into making a device that detects user defined filler words to assist the user in his/her day-to-day and professional speeches.

 

I acted as the Director of Product Development. I was responsible for designing, wiring, programming and testing the device. The voice/word recognition software used is BitVoicer and the micro-controller used is Arduino UNO.

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* The BitVoicer file and the Arduino code are available upon request.

 

Watch a video of us presenting our product here!