A chrome extension to capture captions of google meet and convert voice to text using webkitspeechrecognition api for meets other than google meet.
- Users can start, stop, clear and resume the process of capturing of captions before submitting it for final summarization.
- Screenshot capturing functionality. Users can also just say "Take snapshot" and that would be detected through captions and the screenshot would be taken automatically !
- User can enter the final number lines required for summarization.
GitHub repo link: Link to repository
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Tools and technologies that you learnt and used in the project.
- Chrome Extension Api
- Javascript
- HTML CSS
As the name goes it can gistify:) or summarize the google captions and also simultaneously take screenshots from google meet. This feature can be used by students or professional during their lectures or meetings.
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- Explored the chrome extension api and learnt how actually the browser interacts with the webpage.
- Great hands on experience with DOM manipulation. Solved the issues and added functionalities in the original project.
- Added support to stop and resume the process of capturing the captions through storing it in chrome's localStorage feature.
- Made the screenshot button more interactive and responsive for the user.
- Solved the issues related to storage of the captions.
- Explored similar kind of caption capturing process for other platforms.
To solve other issues related to background running of extension and make it more fluid and user friendly.