olawaleoyedele/voicebridge-naija

Breaking language barriers in Nigerian healthcare using AI-powered voice and intonation retaining translation. # 🇳🇬 VoiceBridge Naija Breaking language barriers in Nigerian healthcare using AI-powered voice and intonation/dialect retaining translation. **Category**: AI-Powered Solutions **Built for the 3MTT Challenge** --- ## Problem In many Nigerian hospitals, patients cannot describe their symptoms effectively due to language barriers. Doctors and patients struggle to communicate, which leads to misdiagnoses and poor healthcare outcomes. The idea of this app was conceived after I got to know about an incident of a wrong drug prescription when a doctor misunderstood his patient while explaining his ailment. --- ## 🛠Solution **VoiceBridge Naija** is an AI-powered app that helps doctors and patients communicate in their native languages — Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa — using voice translation while retaining dialect/intonation. --- ## Features - Patients record symptoms in Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa - AI translates and transcribes it into English (for the doctor's better understanding) - Doctor responds in English - Reply is translated back into the patient’s language and played in audio (for patient's better understanding) - Smooth role switch between patient and doctor - Audio auto-plays to simulate natural communication --- ## AI Tools Used For demo purposes, the app uses: - `Speech-to-text`: OpenAI Whisper - `Translation`: English ↔ Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa - `Text-to-speech`: Language-aware voice output --- ## Screenshots ## Welcome view ## Patient view ## ## Doctor view ## --- **Creator** - Abdullah Oyedele **3MTT Fellow** - FE/23/36975866 **X handle** - @oyedeleabdullah