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title: LectureWhisperer
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short_description: The Lecture Whisperer is a multimodal AI study assistant.

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title: Lecture Whisperer
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# 🎓 The Lecture Whisperer

> **Turn any lecture recording + slides into a full AI-powered study toolkit — in minutes.**

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## 📸 Overview

The Lecture Whisperer is a multi-modal AI app that takes a raw lecture audio file and PDF slides as input and produces:

- ✅ A full timestamped transcript
- ✅ Extracted key concepts from every slide
- ✅ A smart sync report mapping *what was said* → *which slide it belongs to*
- ✅ An interactive Q&A chatbot grounded in your lecture content
- ✅ A generated multiple-choice quiz for exam prep

All model inference runs via the **Hugging Face Inference API** — no GPU required on the Space itself.

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## 🧠 Models Used

| Task | Model |
|---|---|
| Audio Transcription | [`openai/whisper-large-v3`](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) |
| Slide Vision & Text Extraction | [`Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct`](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct) |
| Quiz Generation & Q&A Chatbot | [`meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct`](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) |

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## ✨ Features

### Tab 1 — Upload & Process
- Upload an **MP3 or WAV** lecture recording
- Upload a **PDF** of lecture slides
- Hit **⚡ Process Lecture** to run the full pipeline
- View a live **Sync Report** showing which transcript segment maps to which slide

### Tab 2 — Dashboard
- **💬 Chatbot** — Ask any question about the lecture. Answers are grounded in the transcript and slide content (RAG-lite)
- **🖼️ Slide Gallery** — Browse all extracted slide images side by side

### Tab 3 — Mock Quiz
- Click **🧠 Generate Mock Quiz** to instantly produce 7 multiple-choice questions
- Questions are generated strictly from the lecture transcript — no hallucinated content

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## 🔧 How It Works

### 1. Audio Transcription
Whisper Large v3 processes the audio file via the HF Inference API and returns timestamped sentence chunks:
```
[00:04] Welcome to today's lecture on classical mechanics.
[00:20] Newton's Second Law states that force equals mass times acceleration.
```

### 2. Slide Processing
Each PDF page is converted to an image using `pdf2image`. Each image is sent to Qwen2-VL with a prompt to extract all visible text, equations, bullet points, and concepts.

### 3. Sync Logic
A keyword-overlap engine indexes every slide's content into a word set. Each transcript segment is then scored against every slide — the highest overlap wins. Example output:
```
[04:20] Newton's Second Law states F = ma
   → Slide 5 (score: 4)
```

### 4. Chatbot Q&A
When you ask a question, the app:
1. Finds relevant transcript lines by keyword matching
2. Finds relevant slides by keyword matching
3. Stuffs both into a Llama-3 prompt as context
4. Returns a grounded answer

### 5. Quiz Generation
The full transcript is passed to Llama-3-8B with a strict instruction to generate MCQs *only* from the provided content — no external knowledge injected.

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## 🚀 Running Locally

### Prerequisites
- Python 3.10+
- `poppler-utils` installed on your system:
  ```bash
  # Ubuntu / Debian
  sudo apt install poppler-utils

  # macOS
  brew install poppler
  ```

### Setup
```bash
git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/YOUR_USERNAME/lecture-whisperer
cd lecture-whisperer

pip install -r requirements.txt
```

### Set your HF Token
```bash
export HF_TOKEN=hf_your_token_here
```

### Run
```bash
python app.py
```

Then open [http://localhost:7860](http://localhost:7860) in your browser.

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## 🔑 Required Secrets (for HF Spaces)

Go to your Space → **Settings → Variables and secrets** → add:

| Secret Name | Value |
|---|---|
| `HF_TOKEN` | Your Hugging Face API token (read access) |

Make sure you have accepted the terms for gated models:
- [Meta Llama 3](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) — click "Agree and access repository"
- [Qwen2-VL](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct) — click "Agree and access repository"

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## 📁 Project Structure

```
lecture-whisperer/
├── app.py              # Main Gradio application
├── requirements.txt    # Python dependencies
├── packages.txt        # System dependencies (poppler-utils)
└── README.md           # This file
```

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## 📦 Dependencies

```
gradio>=6.0.0
pdf2image>=1.17.0
Pillow>=10.0.0
requests>=2.31.0
```

System dependency (handled by `packages.txt` on HF Spaces):
```
poppler-utils
```

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## ⚠️ Known Limitations

- **Processing time** — Whisper transcription via the free Inference API can take 2–5 minutes for a 1-hour lecture. The app includes automatic retry logic for cold-start delays.
- **Sync accuracy** — The current sync engine uses keyword overlap scoring. It works well for technical content but may miss semantic matches (e.g. paraphrased concepts). Future versions will use sentence embeddings.
- **API rate limits** — The HF free Inference API has rate limits. For heavy usage, consider upgrading to a PRO token or running models locally.
- **Gated models** — Llama-3 and Qwen2-VL require accepting license terms on the HF model page before your token can access them.

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## 🗺️ Roadmap

- [ ] Sentence-embedding based sync (replace keyword overlap with `all-MiniLM-L6-v2`)
- [ ] One-click lecture summary (5 bullet points)
- [ ] Export quiz as downloadable PDF
- [ ] Speaker diarization (identify multiple speakers)
- [ ] Support for YouTube URLs as audio input
- [ ] Persistent chat history per session

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## 🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.

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## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

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## 🙏 Acknowledgements

- [OpenAI Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) for the transcription model
- [Qwen Team at Alibaba](https://huggingface.co/Qwen) for Qwen2-VL
- [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com) for Llama 3
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co) for the Inference API and Spaces platform
- [Gradio](https://gradio.app) for the UI framework
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Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference