Oracle Scribe

A voice assistant skill that acts as a creative co-pilot, using layered, dream-like narrative exercises to help writers and creators overcome creative blocks and build unique worlds.

Oracle Scribe is a niche voice assistant skill designed for creative individuals like writers, game masters, and screenwriters. It merges the prescient, world-building depth of 'Dune', the subconscious exploration of 'Inception', and the data aggregation of a web scraper into a unique brainstorming tool.

The core concept is to perform 'creative inception' on the user. Instead of just providing a static prompt, the Oracle Scribe guides the user through a multi-layered journey to plant and cultivate a story idea. It acts as a digital Mentat, processing vast amounts of narrative data to provide unique, insightful prompts.

Here's how it works:

1. Data Harvesting (The 'Spice'): On the backend, a low-cost, automated scraper runs periodically. It gathers content from public domain literature, creative writing blogs, mythology websites, and forums (like specific subreddits for writing prompts). This raw text is processed and categorized into a database of concepts, archetypes, settings, and linguistic styles. This forms the 'collective unconscious' from which the assistant draws its inspiration.

2. The Session (The 'Dream'): The user initiates a session by saying, "Alexa, ask Oracle Scribe to plant a story seed." The user provides a simple keyword or genre (e.g., 'noir', 'space opera', 'betrayal').

3. Level 1 - The Hook: The assistant uses a calm, measured voice—reminiscent of the Bene Gesserit 'Voice'—to present a synthesized starting point. For 'noir', it might say, "You are in a city where the rain never washes the streets clean. A holographic dame with static in her eyes offers you a data-chip. It feels cold, like a promise. What is etched on its surface?"

4. Level 2 - Deepening the World: Based on the user's response, the assistant asks follow-up questions to build the world, pulling related concepts from its database. "Does the static in her eyes resemble a forgotten memory, or a live feed from a system that shouldn't exist? Describe the sound your footsteps make on the permacrete."

5. Level 3 - Introducing Conflict (The 'Kick'): The assistant introduces a complication designed to feel like a subconscious intrusion, forcing the user to think laterally. "As you look at the data-chip, your personal 'totem'—the one object that proves this reality is yours—begins to feel wrong in your pocket. Why?"

By the end of a 5-10 minute session, the user has co-created a rich scene or a detailed story outline. A full transcript is sent to their email or the companion app. The earning potential lies in a freemium model: basic sessions are free, while a monthly subscription unlocks deeper, multi-session 'campaigns', genre-specific content packs ('Herbert-esque Sand Worlds', 'Nolan-esque Time Benders'), and advanced voice modulation styles for the assistant.

Project Details

Area: Voice Assistants Method: Blog Content Inspiration (Book): Dune - Frank Herbert Inspiration (Film): Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan