For the Love of Madlibs

[lauraturk]

Problem it solves: Understanding the structure of language is key to mastering verbal and written communication. Unfortunately, parts of speech are kinda boring.

How it solves it: Harness the power of gamification, nostalgia, Web Speech API's and websockets to create an engaging Madlib game that creates hilarious results.

Technical challenges: Speech recognition and web sockets.

[anderswood]

Questions for Robbie and Brittany:

• We're planning to use React, based on below, do you think we need Redux?
• Should we incorporate Laura's BYOB project into this new project, or maintain two separate repos: one for front-end that makes API calls to a back-end repo

1. MadTalk Repo
2. Data Source: Laura's BYOB project which uses text processing API
3. Wireframing: see ReadMe.md
4. MVP and beyond...

MVP:

• Create a MadLib template based on stock, text blurbs stored in database
• User populate MadLib words manually or via speech recognition (AWS speech API)
• App reads back completed game
• Validation and feedback for correct parts of speech (e.g. verb vs. noun)

Beyond MVP:

• User can create blurb by selecting a general topic (e.g. 'romance novels'), or searching for a book title (blurb comes from book synopsis)
• Word visualization and analysis: e.g. provide example word for each part of speech, analyze how commonly words are used and/or provide movie type rating to game (PG, PG-13 etc..)
• Create different users so that users can save completed games to their account
• Allow users to copy/paste link to completed game to facilitate sharing games