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<!-- Setting
Language: en-US
voiceCode: en-US Studio O
Speed: 1.4
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    <!-- Introduction -->
    <voice name="en-US-Studio-O">
        Imagine you wanted to make a Carbonara <break time="50ms"/> and only needed one egg.
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        However, the only available option is to buy a pack of ten eggs.
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        3 weeks later, you didn't manage to use the rest and had to throw them because they went bad.
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        If this sometimes happens to you
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        fret not as you are not alone.
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        <p>
            <s>
                In fact, <break time="50ms"/> we produced almost 1 trillion tonnes
                of food waste in 2019 alone,
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                most of them are from households.
            </s>
        </p>
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        <p>
            <s>
                Moreover, 90% of the food waste we throw
                are groceries.
            </s>
        </p>
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        <p>
            <s>
                Hence, we introduce Too Good To Waste,
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                an application that allows user to keep track of their
                pantries and share them with other people.
            </s>
        </p>
    </voice>

    <!-- Add Item -->
    <voice name="en-US-Studio-O">
        This is Yudhis
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        he just went back from grocery shopping
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        He want to track his item so he used Too Good To Waste,
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        then he opened the app and simply scan the receipt.
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        Instantly, each item is categorized, assigned a suggested expiration date, and added to his inventory list.
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        He then checked his statistic of wasted, consumed, expiring, and shared food.
    </voice>

    <!-- Architecture -->
    <voice name="en-US-Studio-O">
        We use Flutter for our frontend and Firebase for backend.
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        We choose Firebase Storage and Firestore for our data storage.
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        Additionally, we use the new Google Vertex AI for extracting
        information from receipt and suggesting expiry date.
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        With Google Cloud Scheduler and Firebase Cloud Messaging, we
        can can send notification to our users.
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        We also use Google Maps Platform to show our users
        the location of shared items.
    </voice>

    <!-- Story -->
    <voice name="en-US-Studio-O">
        One week later,
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        Yudhis is going on a long trip tomorrow,
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        while packing up he found out that he still had a large amount of milk.
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        He immediately decided to share three bottles of them.
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        Yudhis took a photo and posted it in the application.
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        Now everyone can see that his post is listed in the post page waiting to be picked out.
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        This is Nana. She is busy baking but she ran out of milk.
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        Unfortunately,
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        it is sunday meaning all the stores are closed in Germany.
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        She opened Too Good To Waste and searched milk posts using Diaries category filter.
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        She found Yudhis' post of three bottles of fresh milk nearby and asked Yudhis about them.
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        Yudhis and Nana exchanged messages and they agreed to meet.
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        By this, Yudhis didn't have to throw the milks and Nana could have the milk she needed.
    </voice>

    <!-- Closing -->
    <voice name="en-US-Studio-O">
        Do you know how much food waste can you reduce by using too good to waste?
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        Let’s try and confirm by yourself.
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        Too good to waste,
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        your first step to food-waste-free life
    </voice>
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