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# Genysis Brainstorming Session
:date: October 13th
:pushpin: Duh Internetz

## Ideas
**General Thoughts**
- Add accessibility features
    - text to speech for visually impaired
    - use accessibility semantic tags for screen readers
    - colour blind color schemes option/button
    - [example](https://alnoorspneeds.ae/accessibility-features/)

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### Elderly/Cyber Bullying Scam Detection and Protection
- speech to text
- scrape conversation script
    - easier in text chat
- format into JSON API request
- run request against database  


#### Technical Feasability
**Privacy Concerns**
- will have to record audio on phone
- will have to read text-messages
#### Current Market Viability/Business Model
- compete's with [anti-phone bots](https://jollyrogertelephone.com/)
#### Judging Criteria Viability

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### Homeless Service Number
- Twilio phone number 
- chat with voice-bot to get services information


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### Homeless resource chatbot
- easy to use resource chatbot for folks experiencing homelessness and shelter staff who have to make quick referrals

**Data Sources**
- [toronto.ca homelessness help app](toronto.ca/homelesshelp)
- 211.ca


#### Technical Feasability
- requesting JSON from data sources 
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#### Current Market Viability/Business Model
- skill for chalmersbot
- better interface for toronto.ca/homelesshelp

**Concerns**
- How is this better than the services we're pulling data from?
    - compared to existing services, a chatbot has better UX
        - faster reference time for shelter staff saves th
    - integrate with Chalmers.App, which *is* a tool currently used by shelter staff. So we are actually improving a service currently being used, not replacing a service
        - we would be adding 
- How will we be training our model?

#### Judging Criteria Viability

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### Calculate taxes as a freelancer chatbot

#### Technical Feasability
#### Current Market Viability/Business Model
#### Judging Criteria Viability

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### Newcomer Resources Chatbot & Tenant/landlord negotiation chatbot

#### Technical Feasability
#### Current Market Viability/Business Model
#### Judging Criteria Viability

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### White-Label FAQ website plug-in??
- sell front-end for proper data entry
- sell iFrame frontend?
- sell as wordpress plugin?

#### Technical Feasability
#### Current Market Viability/Business Model
#### Judging Criteria Viability


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## Languages, Frameworks, and Infrastructure

### Chatbot Frameworks
- [Amazon Lex](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lex/latest/dg/getting-started.html)
- [Google Assistant](https://developers.google.com/assistant/) 
- **Open Source** [bot press](https://botpress.io/docs/)
- **Open Source** [Stealth](https://hellostealth.org/)

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## Judging Criteria
- Presentation
- Creativity
- Use of Knowledge source
- Technical Difficulty
- Scalability

###### tags: `Genesys`