CookMate AI
A voice-guided cooking assistant that turns any YouTube recipe into hands-free, step-by-step navigation.
Overview
A voice-first cooking companion. Paste a YouTube recipe and CookMate extracts structured ingredients and steps, then walks you through them hands-free — you cook, it listens and responds.
Contribution Solo Project
Problem
Following a recipe video means constantly pausing, scrubbing back, and touching your phone with messy hands. The useful information is buried in a linear video with no structure.
Approach
- 01
Transcribe and parse the recipe into a structured schema — ingredients, quantities, and ordered steps.
- 02
Ground responses with a RAG pipeline: semantic chunking plus Redis TTL deduplication to avoid re-embedding repeats.
- 03
Deepgram-powered voice navigation for hands-free 'next step', 'repeat', and ingredient queries at 90%+ accuracy.
- 04
Stream answers step-by-step so guidance stays in sync with cooking pace.
Outcome
- 90%+ voice-command accuracy for fully hands-free navigation.
- ~70% cut in user review time versus scrubbing back through video.
- Structured ingredient extraction from otherwise unstructured recipe videos.