Landing & Thesis Ingestion
Semantic Analysis & Attack Synthesis
Live Voice Defense Interrogation
Pre-Defense Radar & Metric Review
Final Defense Scorecard & PDF Export
Defending a thesis is one of the most high-stakes hurdles in an academic career. Paper Trial simulates an adversarial thesis committee: it ingests research papers, pinpoints methodological and statistical flaws using Gemini 2.5, and conducts a live bidirectional voice interrogation over Deepgram STT and ElevenLabs TTS while penalizing students who alt-tab to cheat.
Vector Grounding & Semantic RAG Pipeline
Ingests academic thesis PDFs using PyMuPDF to parse structured text and preserve exact page coordinates. Documents are semantically chunked and indexed into a PostgreSQL pgvector database, allowing the model to cross-reference spoken student arguments against their actual citations in milliseconds.
Low-Latency Adversarial Voice Loop
Streams microphone audio over WebSockets to Deepgram STT, tracking speech cadence, hesitation markers, and words per minute. Google Gemini 2.5 synthesizes targeted methodological critiques, which are streamed back via ElevenLabs TTS to deliver an authoritative, natural-sounding oral examination.
Browser Integrity Tracking & PDF Scorecards
Enforces defense realism through browser visibilitychange listeners that dock integrity points if students alt-tab to check external notes. The session evaluates answers across five academic dimensions mapped onto Recharts radar graphs, generating a multi-column PDF audit report via fpdf2.