BLACKBOX responder
About this project
In one sentence, what are you building?
a voice agent that listens to a chaotic emergency in any language, separates the speakers, turns what they say into a live incident card, asks out loud for the missing details, and phones a contact with the finished report.
What problem are you solving?
When a 911 caller doesn’t speak English, help arrives slower. Studies show call-takers wait about 50 seconds just to get an interpreter on the line, and in cardiac arrest calls with a Spanish language barrier, the first chest compression came almost two minutes later than on English calls. Every minute without CPR cuts survival by 7 to 10%. At the same time, 911 centers are short-staffed, with about one in four positions vacant nationally, so call-takers have even less time to untangle chaotic, multilingual calls. The people paying the price are limited-English callers and their families, and the call-takers trying to help them.