My idea is for an app that trains virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google home to understand accented English better. The program will use thousands of hours of audio from different accents and machine learning to help these virtual assistants better interpret English with accents. What do you think? Would this be helpful for you or anyone you know?

My idea: an app that uses AI to diagnose a home repair issue and then guides you through how to fix it. You use your phone camera to take a picture of the issue, the app guides you through other pictures/videos needed or questions to answer to determine the root cause of the issue, and then it guides you through how to solve it. This is for DIY aficionados and home handypeople who want to learn how to fix up simple issues in their homes. 

For any corporate worker, this will sound familiar: you’ve just finished a proposal, thought process, or project plan, and now it’s time to present to your colleagues. You sigh and prepare for a long night in of building Microsoft Powerpoint slides. Will it be 10 slides, 20, or 50 to convey your idea? Only time will tell. You make yourself a pot of coffee and prepare for the carpal tunnel you’ll experience the following day.

It doesn’t have to be like this. As voice-directed technologies progress, so should our ways of communicating with each other, past the casual conversation to the more formal business presentation. I want to make a voice-based presentation builder, where you access the microphone of your computer to direct a bot to help you build your presentation— moving shapes, text boxes, and images into alignment. With simple voice commands, you’ll be able to build faster and build with ease— maybe even multi-tasking and doing household chores as you prepare a presentation.

What do you think of this idea: is this something you would use? 

Earlier this year, my mom received a call from who she assumed to be her bank. The caller told her that her account information had been hacked online, and to prevent against fraud, she should provide them with all her bank account numbers, usernames, and passwords, across all accounts. She was getting ready to provide these scammers with all her financial information, when I happened to call her. She told the scammers she would call them back, and she accepted the call from me and told me what was going on. Luckily enough, I had called at just the right time, and her accounts remained safe.

The FBI estimated that, in 2020, seniors lost $1 billion in cybercrimes, and that’s only the crimes that were reported. The true number could be even higher. As more and more becomes accessible through the Internet, keeping your parents offline just isn’t an option— the only option is equipping them with the tools to remain safe from those who deliberately target them. I want to create a platform that helps seniors stay safe online. The platform would include educational components and trainings, as well as web monitoring alerts that sync with their various accounts: financial, social, etc. They can assign loved ones as contacts to help monitor those accounts, and when there is suspicious activity, both seniors and their loved ones are flagged. 

I see the target market being the loved ones of seniors, and the market opportunity being $1 billion and growing each year. As the population continues to age and technological changes grow increasingly, so will those who try to profit off of those changes. 

I am looking for feedback on this idea as well as for potential partners. Do you want to join me in helping make a safe Internet for all?