Texcellence
Software Engineering Project - Fall 2020, Tilburg University
Holding effective meetings is incredibly important when it comes to successful communication within a team, and ultimately the success of a project. One factor that can greatly increase the effectiveness of a meeting is adequate note taking. Useful notes should provide a concise overview of future tasks, role division within the team, and more.
However, taking notes by hand during a meeting inconvenient and can be distracting. Furthermore, sharing English meeting notes with Dutch partners or clients is hindered by language barriers. This creates a necessity for an application that takes notes and translates them automatically, to ease the process of both note taking and sharing.
Texellence is an action planning speech-to-text system that addresses the aforementioned problem. It is an AI empowered web-based meeting secretary with that provides transcription and translation functionality. With the help of this service, users are able to instantly create and translate short notes, such as to-do lists, either during or after the meeting.
We trained OpenNMT with customized EuroParl and OpenSubtitles for the translation model, hosted the website on github pages, and deployed the backend server on AWS EC2 and used ROUTE53 to link a domain.