Voice assistants can be a bit cold and yet omnipresent, always listening and knowledgable. I wanted to subvert this with an app called Divine Being that would respond to prompts and questions with poems, prayers and songs to ancient goddesses from the cannons of time. This was created to soothe, intimidate and nourish beyond what Assistant apps were capable of. It was available through the Google Assistant ecosystem.

This project confirmed that I don’t necessarily enjoy programming. What was enjoyable was researching poetry, hymns and prayers that went back centuries and millennia. It was an interesting project because it went from something that was created onto a computer to being available to any space around the world that had a Google Assistant speaker.