ARIA: Accessible Refugee Information Assistant

ARIA.Demo.480p.compressed.mp4

Accessible Refugee Information Assistant. Helping refugees understand the claimant process in Canada, with the help of a multilingual voice assistant, and fine tuned large language model.

Table of Contents

• ARIA: Accessible Refugee Information Assistant
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Features
  • Installation
  • License

Introduction

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Features

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Installation

Prerequisites:

1. Google ADC authentication
2. Google Cloud Platform project with TTS and Translation APIs enabled
3. OpenAI key

Dependencies:

1. Node.js
2. Expo
3. ts-node

Setup requirements:

1. Create 2 .env files, one in /backend and one in /frontend/aria. In both, create an environment variable named OPENAI_API_KEY and set it to your OpenAI key. In the backend, move your GCP project key to the root folder, name it "aria_google.json" and set up the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS='aria_google.json'. In the frontend, create and set BACKEND_URL to your IPv4 address at port 3000.

# Installation steps
git clone https://github.com/geraldyywang/ARIA.git
cd ARIA/frontend/aria
npm install
cd ..
cd ..
cd backend
yarn install

# Running in dev
# in frontend/aria
npx expo start
# in backend
npm run dev