# (hooked on) Phonex

- **Event:** [OpenAI Voice Hack Night](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-voice-hack-night)
- **When:** Wed, May 27 at 3:00 – 9:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** 1515 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Adam Williams](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/adamloops)
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/D20hkC9yHnM
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-voice-hack-night/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-voice-hack-night/hackathon/gallery/12

My 3-year old has shown interest in learning how to read, but all of the phonics-based apps we've tried are cumbersome, rigid, and require an adult to use effectively. 
  
So I built Phonex, an app to help 3-7 year-olds learn how to read. 
   
It was build for the hackathon entirely with Codex and uses a combination of OpenAI's Realtime API, speech-to-text (for "grading" phonemes), and text-to-speech (for generating phonemes/words), plus a formal state machine to control and track progress. 
  
Github repo: https://github.com/jumploops/phonex

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