Pawford Academy — A SwiftUI Puppy Training App with ElevenLabs AI Voice 🐾🎓

A developer built Pawford Academy, a SwiftUI iOS app that helps dog owners track their puppy's training journey, featuring an AI-powered voice coach powered by ElevenLabs. The app, created for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition, includes mood tracking, training session logging, and a graduation certificate, with the ElevenLabs integration providing real-time voice encouragement after each action.

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition Pawford Academy — Where good dogs become great dogs 🐾 A native iOS app built with SwiftUI that helps dog owners track their puppy's training journey. The app features an AI-powered voice coach powered by ElevenLabs that cheers your dog on after every training session, a daily mood tracker, and a graduation certificate when your pup completes all their sessions. The idea came from a personal place. I had a black Labrador named Blacky when I was growing up — he was my best friend. Building Pawford Academy was a way to honor that memory and create something genuinely useful for dog lovers everywhere. Whether you have a Golden Retriever, a Husky, a Chow Chow, or a Labrador like Blacky — every dog deserves to graduate from Pawford Academy 🎓 Key features: 🎥 Watch the full demo here: Note:The simulator recording doesn't capture audio — the ElevenLabs voice encouragement plays live in the app after each action Judges who run the app will hear Pawford speak after every mood selection and training session. 🔊 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/gamya-hub/PawfordAcademy https://github.com/gamya-hub/PawfordAcademy Where good dogs become great dogs A beautiful SwiftUI iOS app that helps dog owners track their puppy's training journey — complete with AI-powered voice encouragement using ElevenLabs, mood tracking, training session logging, and a graduation certificate when your pup completes all their sessions 🎓 Built for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition https://dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-08-13 🐕 Tech Stack: @Published and ObservableObject The ElevenLabs integration was the most exciting part. Every time a user logs a training session or selects a mood, the app sends the text to the ElevenLabs API and plays back the warm, encouraging response. The voice counts down remaining sessions to graduation and delivers a special announcement when the dog completes all sessions. Here's how simple the API call is in Swift: js let url = URL string: "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/text-to-speech/\ voiceId " var request = URLRequest url: url request.httpMethod = "POST" request.setValue "application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type" request.setValue apiKey, forHTTPHeaderField: "xi-api-key" let body: String: Any = "text": text, "model id": "eleven multilingual v2", "voice settings": "stability": 0.5, "similarity boost": 0.75 The app was built entirely from scratch during the challenge weekend. The graduation flow was my favourite feature to build — the paw print progress tracker 🐾🐾🐾 filling up one by one gives users a clear, delightful sense of progress toward their dog's big day. One thing I'm proud of: The app uses @Published and ObservableObject for the ElevenLabs service, which means the UI shows a "Pawford is speaking..." indicator while the voice is playing — a small detail that makes the AI feel alive and present. Best Use of ElevenLabs — ElevenLabs powers the entire voice coaching experience in Pawford Academy. Every mood selection, every training session logged, and every graduation milestone is celebrated with a warm AI voice response generated in real time using the ElevenLabs text-to-speech API. This article was written by me; AI was used to improve grammar and readability.