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SightMate solves this by combining vision, audio, and language models into an accessible AI-first platform.\n\n---\n\n## 🎯 Objective\n\nSightMate is an AI-driven, voice-first assistant designed to empower blind and visually impaired individuals. It helps users with:\n\n- Real-time road guidance  \n- Document \u0026 currency reading  \n- Personalized voice interactions  \n- Artistic scene understanding  \n- Daily news summaries  \n\n**Approach:**  \nBlind people deserve a modern, reliable, voice-first experience that goes beyond basic OCR or TTS. SightMate combines powerful LLMs with real-time computer vision and speech processing to truly assist in daily life.\n\n---\n\n## 🛠️ Tech Stack\n\n### 📦 Core Stack:\n- **Frontend:** Next.js, TailwindCSS, ShadCN, Framer Motion  \n- **Backend:** FastAPI (Python)  \n- **Database:** SQLite  \n- **Hosting:** Vercel (Frontend) + Render (Backend)\n- **Groq:** Used for ultra-fast inference with:\n    - `LLaVA` for image-based understanding\n    - `Mixtral` for LLM-based Q\u0026A\n    - `TTS` for expressive voice generation  \n\n---\n\n## ✨ Key Features\n\n### 🛣️ Real-Time Scene Monitoring \u0026 Road Guidance\n- Live camera stream interpreted using LLaVA\n- Alerts user with audio feedback about obstacles or road conditions  \n\n\n### 📰 Daily News Summarizer\n- Fetches real-time news\n- Summarizes with Mixtral LLM  \n- Reads out top headlines in seconds  \n\n### 📄 Document \u0026 Handwriting Reader\n- Users show documents to the camera\n- Extracted, summarized, and read out loud\n\n### 💰 Indian Currency Recognition\n- Detects INR denominations\n- Adds up total and reads out count\n\n### 🎨 Artistic Scene Description\n- AI describes camera view in poetic or creative style  \n- Designed to create joyful interaction with the environment\n\n---\n\n## 📽️ Demo \u0026 Deliverables\n\n- 🎥 **Demo Video:** *[YouTube](https://youtu.be/tH8MsqGeQG0)*  \n\n---\n\n## 🧪 How to Run the Project\n\n###  Requirements\n- Python ≥ 3.9  \n- Node.js ≥ 18.x  \n- Groq API Key  \n\n## 🧱 Environment Setup\n\n- Copy the `.env.sample` file to `.env` and add your Groq API key.\n- Make sure your Groq API key has enough credits to run `playai-tts` model and  \t`meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct`\nmodel.\n\n### Clone the repository\n```bash\ngit clone https://github.com/mitesh-kumavat/sightmate\ncd sightmate\n```\n\n### Backend Setup\n- open a terminal and run the following commands:\n```bash\npip install -r requirements.txt\n\n# Start FastAPI backend\nuvicorn app.main:app --reload\n```\n\n### Frontend Setup\n- open a new terminal and run the following commands:\n```bash\ncd frontend\nnpm install\nnpm run dev\n```\n\n---\n\n## 🌱 Future Scope\n\n- 👓 Smart Glasses Integration (Raspberry Pi or ESP32 Cam)\n- 🧭 Indoor Navigation with Beacons\n- 📱 Android App with voice activation\n- 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 SOS Caretaker Dashboard\n- 🌐 Multi-language translation for regional adoption\n- 🔍 Object Finder (e.g. “Find my keys”)\n\n---\n\n## 📎 Resources \u0026 Acknowledgements\n\n- [Groq API](https://console.groq.com/)\n- FastAPI, Uvicorn, SQLModel  \n\n---\n\n## 🏁 Final Words\n\n\u003e SightMate isn’t just a project — it’s a mission.  \n\u003e A mission to make the world more inclusive, one intelligent voice at a time.\n\n---","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmitesh-kumavat%2Fsightmate","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fmitesh-kumavat%2Fsightmate","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmitesh-kumavat%2Fsightmate/lists"}