✨ Tech Ears - From Developers to Developers

Tech Ears is an open-source project designed by developers for developers, aimed at enhancing English language skills and providing practice for technical questions and interviews. Our platform offers a collaborative environment where developers can improve their communication skills while preparing for the challenges of technical interviews.

What can you do?

You can practice every day, without any fee.
Learn by listening real context developers routines.
Share your progress.

How can I help building Tech Ears?

Code Contributions: Improve the platform by adding new features, fixing bugs, or enhancing existing functionality.
Content Creation: Develop new exercises, questions, and scenarios to enrich the learning experience.
Feedback and Suggestions: Share your ideas and feedback to help us continuously improve Tech Ears.

Main Stacks

Node.js:A free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Yarn: Yarn is a package manager that doubles down as project manager.
Next Js: The React Framework for the Web

How to run:

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/arthcc/tech-ears

Install NVM in order to easily run the recommended Node version for this project:

nvm install v20
nvm use

Now go to cd tech-ears and run yarn install

After that you can go to: http://localhost:3000 so you can run locally.

If you want to generate audios too, you need an API KEY, you can get one here: Eleven Labs API
Or a Google Cloud API Key

Running with Docker

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/arthcc/tech-ears

Navigate to the project directory:
```
cd tech-ears
```
Build the Docker containers:
```
docker compose build
```
Start the Docker containers:
```
docker compose up
```
To stop the Docker containers:
```
docker compose down
```

These steps will build the Docker image once and then allow you to start and stop the containers quickly for development.

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. Just create a pull request with your suggestions and changes.

In addition to writing code, there are many ways for you to contribue.

You can contribute as following:

Create Issues
Giving your Feedback

You can read this repository’s Contributing Guidelines to learn how to contribute.