An AI That Turns a Parent's Voice Into a Personalised Illustrated Storybook

I Built an AI That Turns a Parent's Voice Into a Personalized Illustrated Storybook — Here's How From Gemini Live API to real-time SSE streaming on Cloud Run — the full technical story of DreamBook My daughter went through a dinosaur phase. Then a space phase. Then superheroes. No bookstore in the world can keep up with a six-year-old's rotating obsessions — and even if one could, it still wouldn't know her name, her fears, or the lesson I was trying to teach her that week. That's the problem DreamBook solves. You speak. You say something like "Emma, age five, loves dinosaurs and painting, scared of thunder, I want her to learn that being brave doesn't mean not being scared." Ninety seconds later, you have a fully illustrated, narrated, personalized storybook — text streaming in live, illustrations fading in as they generate, audio narration ready to play per page, and a PDF you can print and keep forever. I built this for the Gemini Live Agent Hackathon. This post is the full technica