What Building Voxitale for the Gemini Live Contest Taught Me About Working With Multiple AI Tools

For the Gemini Live contest I built Voxitale , a voice-first storytelling app for young children. A child talks to a character named Amelia directly in the browser. They guide the adventure out loud. Illustrated scenes appear as the story unfolds. At the end the system produces a short storybook-style movie based on what happened in the session. The strange part? My favorite moment during the entire project was fixing the WiFi on my Raspberry Pi. Let me explain. First, I hate consultant talk. I cannot stand polished language that sounds impressive but says nothing. So I am not going to pretend this project was some elegant engineering journey. It was messy. It was fast. I used a pile of AI tools. Some parts were genuinely exciting. Some parts felt like moving logs between terminals for hours. Somewhere in the middle of all that I actually learned something useful. What Voxitale Looks Like Before getting into the engineering, here is what the experience actually looks like. A child spea