School Bud-E 🎓🤖

Welcome to School Bud-E, your AI-powered educational assistant! 🚀

🌟 Overview

School Bud-E is an intelligent and empathetic learning assistant designed to revolutionize the educational experience. Developed by LAION in collaboration with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Collabora, the Tübingen AI Center and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and Intel, School Bud-E focuses on empathy, natural interaction, and personalized learning. A working demo of the application is available at school-bud-e.deno.dev.

🚀 Features (WIP)

• 💬 Real-time responses to student queries
• 🧠 Emotionally intelligent interactions
• 🔄 Continuous conversation context
• 👥 Multi-speaker and multi-language support
• 🖥️ Local operation on consumer-grade hardware
• 🔒 Privacy-focused design

🛠️ Technology Stack

• Frontend: Fresh framework (Preact-based)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• Language Support: Internationalization for English and German
• AI Models:
  • Speech-to-Text: Whisper Large V3 (via Groq API)
  • Large Language Model: GPT-4o or equivalent

🏗️ Project Structure

• routes/: Application routes
• components/: Reusable UI components
• islands/: Interactive components (Fresh islands)
• internalization/: Language-specific content
• static/: Static assets

🚀 Getting Started: Development

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/LAION-AI/school-bud-e.git

2. Install dependencies:

   deno task start

3. Set up environment variables:

   • Copy .example.env to .env
   • Fill in the required API keys and endpoints

4. Run the development server:

   deno task start

5. Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

🚀 Getting Started: Production

1. Without docker

   deno task build
   deno task preview

2. With docker

   git clone https://github.com/LAION-AI/school-bud-e-frontend.git
   cd school-bud-e-frontend
   cd docker-compose
   nano .env # Adjust environment variables accordingly
   docker-compose up

Then log into localhost:8000 in your browser.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to School Bud-E! Please join our Discord server or contact us at [email protected] to get involved.

🚧 Experimental Demo Version

Please note that this is an early prototype application that may provide inaccurate answers or generate content that is not suitable for all audiences. We advise caution and encourage you to report any issues you encounter to us.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgements

Special thanks to LAION, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Collabora, the Tübingen AI Center and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and Intel for their contributions and support to this project.

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