Arslan Sarakaev

Mia is an AI-powered messenger that helps you stay in touch with friends, family, and the people in your life through text and voice messages. It comes with a personal assistant you can talk to as naturally as you would to another person. With Mia, you can catch up on conversations, talk through what you want to say, and reply using your voice. You can speak in your own words, explain what you mean, or change your mind along the way. Mia follows the conversation and helps you carry things through, from understanding a message to deciding how to respond. Mia can also remember preferences and details you ask her to keep in mind for next time. This gives future conversations continuity and makes the assistant more personal to you. The whole experience is designed to make everyday messaging comfortable and easy without looking at the screen. For blind and low-vision users, Mia offers a way to stay connected and manage conversations independently. You can also switch back to the regular messenger whenever you prefer to read and write yourself. The idea behind Mia is to make conversation a natural way to use a messenger, with an assistant who understands what you want and helps you do it. Mia uses Meta’s models for speech recognition and reasoning. I built the entire project during the hackathon, including the client, the backend, and the personal assistant. The current version runs on iPhone.