Submission by gowtham jayavarapu

VoiceChef is a fully voice-controlled cooking assistant designed for moments when your hands aren’t free — mixing dough, cooking with oil, washing vegetables, or multitasking in the kitchen. Most cooking apps still rely heavily on touch interaction, which becomes frustrating and messy during real cooking. VoiceChef solves this by creating a completely hands-free cooking experience powered by voice AI. Users can: 🎙️ Navigate recipes entirely with voice commands 📸 Snap a photo of a recipe and instantly extract steps using AI 🗣️ Ask cooking questions naturally while cooking ⏱️ Set timers hands-free 👨‍🍳 Cook alongside different AI chef personalities like “Nani”, “Drill Sergeant”, “Zen Master”, and “Hype Man” VoiceChef uses ElevenLabs Speech-to-Text to understand user voice commands in real time and ElevenLabs Text-to-Speech to bring the chef personalities to life with natural, expressive voices. The app was built using Cursor as the primary AI-first development environment, helping rapidly scaffold, iterate, debug, and refine the entire experience during the hackathon. The goal was to create a cooking experience that feels conversational, immersive, and effortless — where users can simply talk and cook without ever touching a keyboard or screen.