Overview

App translates spoken queries to real estate property searches. In your spoken query, you can specify

• min and max ranges on bedrooms, bathrooms and carparks
• Apartments or houses
• Suburb
• Rent or buy

Technologies used in the app

• dash and React
• Python
• Google Cloud API
• Domain API
• HTML
• CSS

Instructions

Main page for the app is app.py. Run the app by opening up a command line, navigating to app.py, and running python app.py. This opens up the app at a local port, by default 8050, so you can see it by going to http://localhost:8050/

Important files:

• app.py: entry point for the app, and main logic
• speech_to_text.py, text_to_post_fields.py, and post_fields_to_map.py: three scripts called by app.py to do the translation procedure.
• txt files are used by the app as an easy place to store variables

Styling and assets used in the app are in /assets. /audio contains example files you can test the app with.

TODO

• update GCP credentials in speech_to_text.py. app won’t work until this is done. Requires creating GCP account (with $300 free credits ideally), perhaps a GCP project, and setting up a service account for the app.
• get microphone working instead of upload button
• put online with netlify at the domain propert.ly

Current bugs

• error on "houses for rent with two bedrooms more than one bathroom and a carspace in Mosman”. problem with “a carspace”? regex?
  • “Anything available for rent in Pyrmont with a car park?” carpark not being picked up
• Newtown not detected in “Newtown apartments with two or three bedrooms and one or two bathrooms”. problem with sentence ordering?
• make coloring less confusing
• Add instructions, some example sentences so user is guided
• redesign UI to look better

Extra features

• Implement being able to search for areas as Domain define them, like “Inner West”

• multiple listings at one address. Currently just picks the first one in the ‘listings’ API object. Could do some nice scroll bar thing. Pair with markerClusters