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Software engineer. Building PAVO, an AI audio travel guide app.

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PAVO uses location-based grounding with Gemini to generate local guides in your native language. So it's less about "travel utility tools" and more focused on deep local knowledge and cultural context.

But you're right - Google Maps handles destinations well, but there's no reason we couldn't use Gemini with grounding for transit guidance too. That's a really interesting idea, thanks! Definitely going to explore that.

This is really helpful, thanks! The offline aspect keeps coming up. PAVO currently generates content in real-time with Gemini, which obviously doesn't work without connectivity.

Thinking I should add a "pre-download" feature where users can generate audio guides and itineraries over WiFi before heading out. Would that solve the offline problem, or do people need the flexibility to explore spontaneously without planning ahead?

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