Tiny Tales: An AI-Based Story Teller

Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements to CSE (Data Science)

Project - 1 Mini Project (CD-363)
III/IV B. Tech CSE(DS) (VI Semester)
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Y22cd134- P.Firoz

Y21CD139– P Pujitha

Y22CD172-V.Lakshmiprasanna

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B. Ramakrishna.
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2024- 2025

R.V.R. & J.C. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS)

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 ABSTRACT
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Storytelling is a fundamental aspect of children's cognitive and emotional development,
fostering creativity and imagination. Traditional storytelling methods require human effort
and creativity, making large-scale personalized storytelling challenging. This project
introduces an AI-driven approach for short story generation using Large Language models.
The system integrates the BLIP image captioning model to generate descriptive captions
from photographs and the Falcon-7B language model to construct engaging narratives
based on predefined themes and age groups.
The proposed methodology enhances the storytelling experience by automating the
generation of meaningful and contextually relevant stories tailored for young readers.
Users can select a theme, time duration, and age group, ensuring personalized and
engaging content. The generated stories are evaluated using BLEU scores to measure
linguistic coherence and quality. The system achieved a high BLEU score of 90.63%,
demonstrating its effectiveness in producing well-structured narratives. This project
contributes to the advancement of AI-driven creative writing and provides an accessible
solution for personalized storytelling experiences.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page No.

Abstract 1
Table of Contents 2
List of Figures 4
List of Tables 5
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 6
1.1 Introduction 7
1.2 Problem Statement 7
1.3 Objective of the Study 8
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE SURVEY 9
CHAPTER 3: SYSTEM ANALYSIS & FEASIBILITY 12
STUDY
3.1 Existing System 13
3.1.1 Limitations of Existing System 13
3.2 Proposed System 14
3.2.1 Advantages of proposed system 14
3.2.2 Dataset 15
3.2.3 Data Pre-processing 16
3.2.3.1 Image Normalization 16
3.2.3.2 Resizing 16
3.2.3.3 Data Augmentation 16
3.2.3.4 Normalization and Scaling 17
3.3 Methodology 17
3.4 Model Training and Testing 19
3.5 Evaluation Metrics 19
3.6 Feasibility Study 20
3.6.1 Economic Feasibility 20
3.6.2 Operational Feasibility 20
3.6.3 Technical Feasibility 20
CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 21
4.1 Functional Requirements 22

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4.2 Technologies and Languages used to develop 22
4.2.1 Debugger and Emulator 22
4.2.2 Hardware Requirements 22
4.2.3 Software Requirements 23
CHAPTER 5: DESIGN 24
5.1 System Design 25
5.2 UML Diagrams 25
CHAPTER 6: IMPLEMENTATION 27
6.1 CRNN Model Algorithm 28
6.2 Home Page 29
CHAPTER 7: RESULTS 35
CHAPTER 8: SOCIAL IMPACT 38
CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK 41
BIBLIOGRAPHY 44

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 LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Figure No. Figure Description Page No.

3.1 Images from four classes 15

3.2 Working of CRNN Architecture 18

5.1 Workflow of CRNN Model 25

5.2 Flow Diagram 26

7.1 Confusion matrix of Proposed method 36

7.2 Confusion matrix of Existing method 37

7.3 Training Accuracy Comparison between CNN and CRNN 37

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 LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Table No. Table Description Page No.

3.1 Description of dataset with the classes: IAQ, ICFF, ICN and 15
IAV
3.2 Data Pre-Processing Values 17
3.3 Experimental Setup of LSTM Model 18
7.1 Results CNN vs CRNN 36

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Chapter 1 Introduction

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 1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction
Storytelling plays a crucial role in children's cognitive development, fostering creativity,
language skills, and emotional intelligence. Traditional storytelling methods, while
effective, often lack personalization and engagement, making it challenging to capture a
child’s interest in a digital-first world. To address this, we propose an AI-powered
storytelling system that leverages deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to
generate dynamic, personalized stories based on user input.
Unlike conventional approaches that rely on predefined narratives, our system integrates
image captioning and generative language models to create tailored stories. Using the
BLIP model for extracting key elements from images and Falcon-7B for generating
structured, age-appropriate narratives, the proposed method ensures coherence, creativity,
and adaptability. This eliminates the need for manually crafting stories while enabling
customization based on themes, age groups, and desired story length.
Previous research has explored various AI-driven storytelling techniques, including rule-
based models and reinforcement learning for text generation. However, our approach
stands out by combining vision-based input with large language models (LLMs) to
enhance interactivity. By utilizing a multimodal dataset that includes both text and images,
we improve contextual understanding and narrative flow, resulting in more engaging
storytelling experiences.
To evaluate its effectiveness, the proposed system will be assessed based on linguistic
coherence, creativity, and personalization. By integrating deep learning techniques with
user-driven customization, this research contributes to advancing AI-generated storytelling,
making it more interactive, engaging, and suitable for children’s learning and
entertainment.

1.1 Problem Statement

The development of an AI-powered personalized storytelling system is essential for
enhancing children's learning and creativity by providing engaging, customized narratives.
Traditional storytelling methods often lack interactivity and adaptability, limiting their
ability to cater to individual preferences, such as theme, age group, and story length. By
leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) and image captioning techniques,
the proposed system can generate personalized stories in real-time, making storytelling
more immersive and dynamic.
Through seamless integration of deep learning models, the system analyzes user-provided
images or text prompts to craft coherent and age-appropriate stories. The use of BLIP for
image-to-text conversion and Falcon-7B for structured story generation ensures high-
quality narratives that align with user expectations. Unlike conventional methods that rely
on manually written or template-based storytelling, this AI-driven approach enhances
flexibility and engagement.
Additionally, the system minimizes inconsistencies in story structure by employing large
language models trained on diverse datasets, ensuring well-formed narratives with
meaningful conclusions. By continuously learning from user interactions, it refines its
storytelling capabilities, providing a more interactive and adaptive experience.
By integrating automation, NLP, and deep learning, this AI-powered storytelling system
revolutionizes digital storytelling for children, fostering creativity and literacy while
offering a scalable, cost-effective solution for personalized education and entertainment.

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1.1 Objectives of the Study

The project aims to develop an AI-powered personalized storytelling system using

generative AI and NLP, enhancing children's learning, creativity, and engagement. By
integrating image captioning and deep learning models, the system generates customized
stories tailored to user preferences, ensuring an interactive and immersive storytelling
experience.
By leveraging BLIP for image-to-text conversion and Falcon-7B for structured story
generation, the system enhances narrative coherence and personalization. This innovation
contributes to children’s education, entertainment, and cognitive development, offering a
scalable and adaptive solution for digital storytelling.

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 Chapter 2
Literature Survey

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 2. LITERATURE SURVEY

2. LITERATURE SURVEY
AI in Children's Education and Engagement
[1] Growing Up with Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Child Development
 Discusses how AI can positively impact children's growth and learning, emphasizing
the importance of AI literacy in modern education.
[2] The Future of Child Development in the AI Era
 Explores cross-disciplinary perspectives between AI and child development experts,
highlighting the evolving role of AI in education.
[3] A Benchmarking Dataset for AI-Generated Child-Safe Content
 Introduces a dataset for evaluating child-friendly AI-generated narratives, ensuring
safety and quality control in AI-generated stories.
AI in Storytelling
[4] The Art of Storytelling: Multi-Agent Generative AI for Dynamic Multimodal
Narratives
 Investigates multi-agent AI systems that integrate LLMs with speech and visual
synthesis to enhance storytelling engagement.
[5] Large Language Models for Storytelling (Rashkin et al., 2020)
 Examines how GPT-based models generate structured narratives, ensuring logical
flow and coherence in AI-generated stories.
Image Captioning Models
[6] BLIP: Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining (Li et al., 2022)
 Introduces BLIP, a powerful image captioning model that aligns visual and textual
information for improved storytelling.
[7] Show, Attend, and Tell (Xu et al., 2015)
 Pioneers attention mechanisms in image captioning, significantly improving
contextual relevance in AI-generated story elements.
[8] Evolution of Image Captioning Models: An Overview
 Highlights advancements in deep learning and multimodal learning for image
captioning, essential for AI-driven storytelling.
AI for Story Writing
[9] A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Technologies Used for Story
Writing
 Analyzes NLP models such as Falcon-7B and GPT-based architectures for
structured story generation.
[10] Evolution of Text Generation Models: An Overview
 Evaluates AI-generated narratives using automated metrics like BLEU, METEOR,
and ROUGE, ensuring linguistic accuracy.
[11] A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Technologies Used for Story
Writing
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 Examines the integration of text-based storytelling (NLP) and image-based
captioning (deep learning) for dynamic, interactive storytelling.
AI Benchmarking and Multimodal Storytelling
[12] A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Technologies Used for Story
Writing
 Explores multimodal transformers and their ability to generate structured and
engaging storytelling content.
[13] Evolution of Text Generation Models: An Overview
 Investigates text generation approaches, including multimodal fusion techniques
for enhanced coherence and engagement.
Building a Storytelling Web App
[14] Multimodal AI Companion for Interactive Fairytale Co-Creation
 Proposes AI.R Taletorium, a storytelling system integrating text and images to
enable co-creation of stories.
[15] Storytelling App Personalization: Design and Impact
 Highlights how personalized digital storytelling improves engagement, cognitive
development, and creativity in children.

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 Chapter 3
System Analysis & Feasibility Study

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3.1 Existing System
Traditional storytelling methods have been a fundamental aspect of children's education and
entertainment for generations. Books, oral storytelling, and animated videos provide structured
narratives that help develop language skills, creativity, and emotional intelligence. However, these
conventional approaches often lack personalization and interactivity, limiting their ability to adapt
to individual preferences such as theme, age group, and engagement level.

Predefined stories in books or digital platforms follow fixed narratives, offering no flexibility for
user input, dynamic adaptation, or real-time story generation. Additionally, while some
applications allow minor customizations, they do not leverage advanced AI-driven personalization,
resulting in a static experience that fails to fully engage young readers.

With advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP),
researchers have explored automated storytelling techniques. Early AI-based storytelling models
utilized rule-based approaches and predefined templates, but these lacked creativity and natural
flow. More recently, deep learning models like GPT-based architectures have enabled coherent,
dynamic, and contextually rich story generation. However, challenges such as maintaining
narrative coherence, age-appropriate content generation, and ensuring meaningful conclusions
persist.

To address these limitations, this project introduces a novel AI-powered storytelling system that
integrates image captioning (BLIP) and generative AI (Falcon-7B) to generate personalized,
dynamic, and engaging narratives. Unlike traditional systems, this approach allows users to input
images or text prompts, enabling interactive storytelling that adapts to individual preferences in real
time.

The proposed system offers a scalable and efficient solution for personalized children's storytelling,
bridging the gap between AI-driven creativity and user engagement. By leveraging deep learning
and NLP, this approach significantly enhances the storytelling experience, making it more
immersive, adaptive, and educational for young readers

2.1.1 Limitations of the existing system

 Limited Personalization: Traditional storytelling methods follow fixed narratives and

are unable to adapt to individual preferences such as theme, story length, or
engagement level.
 Static Content: Rule-based and template-driven AI storytelling systems generate rigid
and repetitive stories, reducing creativity and engagement.
 Computational Constraints: Deep learning models, particularly large language
models (LLMs) like Falcon-7B, require high computational resources. Running such
models on devices without a GPU (like the user's laptop) can lead to slow processing
times and may limit real-time story generation.
 Limited Visual Understanding: Some AI-driven storytelling systems struggle with
accurately interpreting images, leading to contextually incorrect or unrelated story
elements when generating narratives.
 Ethical & Safety Concerns: Ensuring that AI-generated content remains child-
friendly, appropriate, and free from biases is a challenge that requires continuous
monitoring and refinement.

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2.2 Proposed System
Traditional storytelling methods lack personalization and real-time adaptability, making it
difficult to engage children in an interactive and immersive way. To address these
limitations, this project proposes an AI-powered personalized storytelling system that
integrates deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to generate dynamic,
customized stories based on user input.
The proposed system utilizes BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) for image
captioning, extracting key visual elements from user-provided images. These extracted
elements are then processed and used as input for Falcon-7B, a large language model (LLM)
capable of generating coherent, structured, and age-appropriate narratives. By combining
vision-based AI with generative text models, the system ensures that the generated stories are
not only creative but also contextually relevant to the provided images.
A key advantage of this system is its ability to personalize storytelling. Users can specify theme,
age group, story length, and moral values, allowing for tailored storytelling experiences that
align with individual preferences. Additionally, NLP techniques such as sentiment analysis
and coherence evaluation help refine the generated stories, ensuring linguistic quality and
narrative consistency.
To enhance accessibility, the proposed system is designed to operate efficiently on devices
without GPUs, leveraging optimized inference techniques and cloud-based processing when
necessary. This makes it more suitable for deployment across a wide range of platforms,
including mobile applications, web-based interfaces, and interactive learning environments.
By integrating image captioning, generative AI, and user-driven customization, this system
revolutionizes digital storytelling by making it more interactive, adaptive, and engaging for
children. It serves as an effective tool for education, entertainment, and cognitive
development, ensuring a richer and more immersive storytelling experience.

Advantages of the Proposed System

 Personalized Storytelling: The AI-powered system tailors stories based on user

preferences such as theme, age group, and moral values, ensuring a more engaging and
relevant storytelling experience.
 Multimodal AI Integration: By combining BLIP for image captioning and Falcon-7B
for text generation, the system effectively integrates vision-based AI with generative
storytelling, making narratives more contextually rich and interactive.
 Scalability and Adaptability: The system is designed to be scalable and can be
deployed across various platforms, including mobile applications, web-based
interfaces, and interactive learning tools, making it accessible to a wide audience.
 Optimized for Limited Computational Resources: Unlike traditional deep learning
models that require high-end GPUs, the proposed system incorporates optimized
inference techniques to ensure efficient performance on devices without GPUs, making
it more accessible for broader usage.
 Interactive and Engaging Learning: The system fosters creativity, language
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 development, and cognitive skills in children by generating dynamic, adaptive, and
interactive storytelling experiences.
 Ethical and Child-Safe Content: By leveraging AI safety mechanisms, the system
ensures that all generated stories remain age-appropriate, bias-free, and aligned with
child-friendly storytelling standards.

Datasets:

BLIP and Falcon-7B are pretrained models, they do not require additional
training on custom datasets for effective image captioning and story
generation.
1. BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) Pretrained Datasets
BLIP is a pretrained vision-language model that has been trained on large-scale
datasets containing image-text pairs. These pretrained datasets include:
 Conceptual Captions (CC3M & CC12M) – A dataset with millions of
images paired with captions extracted from the web.
 LAION-400M – A large-scale dataset with 400 million image-text pairs
collected from publicly available sources.
 COCO Captions (Common Objects in Context) – A dataset with labeled
images and human-annotated captions for object recognition and scene
understanding.
 Visual Genome – A dataset providing detailed annotations of objects and
relationships in images.
 SBU Captions – A large dataset of image-caption pairs collected from
online sources.
These pretrained datasets enable BLIP to learn image-to-text relationships,
making it highly effective for image captioning and vision-language tasks
without requiring additional training.
2. Falcon-7B Pretrained Datasets
Falcon-7B is a pretrained large language model (LLM) trained on a diverse set of
high-quality text datasets. These pretrained datasets include:
 RefinedWeb Dataset – A carefully curated dataset built from publicly
available web content, ensuring diverse and clean text sources.
 C4 (Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus) – A dataset extracted from Common
Crawl, used to train models like T5 and other LLMs.
 Books and Scientific Papers – A mix of literature, research papers, and
academic texts to improve structured text understanding.
 Wikipedia – A large-scale knowledge base used to enhance factual
accuracy and fluency in text generation.

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1.2 Data Pre-Processing

The data preprocessing pipeline for the AI-powered storytelling system ensures that
both image inputs and text outputs are processed efficiently for optimal performance.
The key preprocessing steps include:

1. Image Preprocessing (for BLIP Model)

 Format Standardization: User-uploaded images are converted to RGB format to

maintain consistency.

 Resizing: Images are resized to 224 × 224 pixels to match the input requirements of
the BLIP model.

 Normalization: Pixel values are normalized to improve model performance and

reduce computational load.

2. Text Preprocessing (for Falcon-7B Model)

 Tokenization: The caption generated by BLIP is tokenized using NLTK’s word

tokenizer to break it into meaningful units.

 Stopword Removal: Common stopwords (e.g., "the," "is," "and") are filtered out to
retain only important words for story generation.

 Theme-Based Keyword Extraction: The filtered words are used to match user-
selected themes (e.g., adventure, moral stories) to guide Falcon-7B in generating
relevant narratives.

3. Story Generation Preprocessing

 Prompt Engineering: A structured prompt is created using selected words, story

theme, time limit, and age group to ensure that Falcon-7B generates a coherent and
engaging story.

 Context Structuring: The generated story follows a predefined structure:

o Title: Captivating story title based on the selected theme.

o Story Body: A well-structured narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.

o Moral/Conclusion: A meaningful lesson or closing statement.

These preprocessing steps ensure that the system effectively processes user inputs to
generate engaging, coherent, and theme-appropriate stories in real time.

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Component Configuration details
Taking Image as input By a Python library called OpenCV
Image Captioning By using a Large Language Model called
BLIP
It is a transformer based model
Text preprocessing of the caption obtained By using NLP principles

Story Personalization User selects theme, length, and age group

Story generation Story generation is done by (Falcon-7B) it
is a 7-billion parameter language model
trained on diverse text datasets.Falcon-7B
uses BLIP captions + user input to
generate a cohesive story.
Output Story[Tiny Tales AI System] AI generates a well-structured, engaging
children’s story.

2.2 Methodology

Here’s a detailed explanation of how BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining)

and Falcon-7B work in the background, covering their architectures, training processes

1. BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) – Image Captioning Model

1.1 Overview:

BLIP is a vision-language model designed to generate textual descriptions from images. It

is a transformer-based model that aligns visual features with text, making it ideal for tasks
like image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal understanding.
In the Tiny Tales system, BLIP is responsible for extracting key elements from images to
generate meaningful captions, which serve as input for story generation.

1.2 Architecture of BLIP

BLIP consists of three major components:

1. Vision Encoder (Image Feature Extractor)
o Uses a Vision Transformer (ViT) to extract high-level features from an input
image.
o Breaks down the image into small patches and represents each as an embedding
vector.
2. Text Encoder (Language Processing Unit)
o Uses a Transformer-based language model (like BERT) to process text input.

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 o Ensures that the extracted image features align with textual data in a shared
embedding space.
3. Multimodal Fusion Module
o Aligns visual embeddings (from ViT) and text embeddings (from the transformer)
to generate captions.
o Uses contrastive learning and bootstrapped training to improve accuracy.

1.3 Training Process of BLIP

BLIP is trained in three stages:

1. Pretraining Stage (Bootstrapped Learning)
o Trained on large-scale image-text datasets such as Conceptual Captions and
LAION-400M.
o Uses self-supervised learning to match images with their corresponding captions.
2. Fine-tuning Stage
o The model is fine-tuned on task-specific datasets (e.g., COCO, Visual Genome) to
improve captioning quality.
3. Inference Stage
o When given a new image, BLIP generates a structured caption based on its learned
understanding of object relationships, colors, actions, and spatial context.

2. Falcon-7B – Story Generation Model

2.1 Overview

Falcon-7B is a large-scale, autoregressive language model developed by Technology

Innovation Institute (TII). It is designed to generate coherent, structured, and human-like
text by predicting the next word in a sequence.
In Tiny Tales, Falcon-7B takes image captions from BLIP and user-defined story
preferences (theme, length, age group) to generate personalized

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2.2 Architecture of Falcon-7B

Falcon-7B is based on decoder-only transformer architecture, optimized for text

generation. Key components include:

1. Token Embedding Layer

o Converts input text (e.g., BLIP captions + user prompts) into numerical
representations (tokens).
2. Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA)
o Helps the model focus on important words when generating a sentence.
o Uses causal masking to ensure it only predicts future words based on past words.
3. Feedforward Neural Network (FFN)
o Applies non-linear transformations to refine text predictions.
o Helps in generating meaningful and grammatically correct sentences.
4. Layer Normalization & Residual Connections
o Improves training stability and efficiency.
o Prevents issues like vanishing gradients in deep networks.

2.3 Training Process of Falcon-7B

Falcon-7B is trained using a large-scale text corpus, including books, dialogues, and
stories. The training process follows these steps:
1. Pretraining
o Exposed to billions of words from high-quality datasets (e.g., The Pile, Wikipedia,
web texts).
o Learns grammar, logical flow, and creative writing styles.
2. Prompt Engineering & Conditioning
o Falcon-7B generates different story genres based on user preferences.
o Incorporates moral lessons and emotional tones based on predefined instructions.

2.3 Role of Falcon-7B in Tiny Tales

 Receives captions from BLIP and user preferences (e.g., adventure, bedtime stories).
 Generates a full-length, structured narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.
 Ensures the story has logical character development and plot progression.
 Can adjust storytelling style based on age group and theme selection.

Need for Activation Function

You do not need to manually define or call activation functions when using pre-trained
models like Falcon-7B and BLIP. They are already handled within the neural network
layers of these architectures.
 BLIP Model (for Image Captioning)
 BLIP is based on Transformer and Vision-Language Pretraining, which inherently use
activation functions like ReLU, GELU, or Softmax within their layers.
 The activation functions are embedded in the multi-layer Transformer blocks used for
image understanding and text generation.
 Falcon-7B Model (for Story Generation)
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  Falcon-7B is a Causal Transformer that also relies on activation functions inside the
model layers.
 Most transformer-based LLMs use GELU (Gaussian Error Linear Unit) in feed-
forward layers to introduce non-linearity and improve learning efficiency.

2.4 Model Training and Testing

The Tiny Tales storytelling model leverages pretrained deep learning models to generate
engaging and age-appropriate stories based on user input. The system integrates BLIP
(Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) for image captioning and Falcon-7B for text
generation, ensuring high-quality narratives tailored to children.
During the testing phase, the model was evaluated on a diverse set of inputs, including:
 Image-based inputs, where BLIP accurately extracts meaningful descriptions from
various illustrations.
 Text-based prompts, where Falcon-7B generates well-structured, coherent, and
engaging stories based on keywords and themes selected by users.
The model exhibits strong adaptability in handling different storytelling styles, ensuring
narratives that align with age-appropriate language, moral values, and creative storytelling
techniques. Its ability to generate content for multiple age groups (3-6, 6-9, and 9-12 years)
highlights its versatility in tailoring stories according to comprehension levels.
Additionally, real-world testing was conducted to assess the model’s ability to follow user-
selected themes (e.g., adventurous, moral, friendship-based) while maintaining logical
coherence and an engaging flow. This rigorous testing ensures that Tiny Tales remains a
reliable, interactive, and enriching storytelling platform for young readers.

2.5 Evaluation Metrics

BLEU Score:
What is the BLEU Score?
The BLEU score measures the similarity between the AI-generated text and reference
human-written text by analyzing overlapping n-grams (sequences of words). It is
commonly used in machine translation and text generation to assess how well the
model-generated content aligns with human expectations.
How BLEU Score Works
1. N-gram Precision: BLEU calculates how many n-grams (unigrams, bigrams,
trigrams, etc.) in the generated text appear in the reference text.
2. Brevity Penalty: Since shorter sentences might have high precision but miss
important context, BLEU applies a brevity penalty to discourage excessively short
outputs.
3. Weighted Averaging: The final score is computed as a weighted geometric mean
of the precision scores for different n-gram sizes.
In the context of Tiny Tales, BLEU can be used to compare AI-generated stories with
human-written reference stories. A higher BLEU score indicates that the generated text
closely resembles natural storytelling patterns, ensuring fluency and readability.

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2.4 Feasibility Study:

2.4.1 Economic Feasibility

From an economic perspective, the development of the Tiny Tales storytelling model is
feasible due to its potential benefits in the ed-tech and entertainment industries. The model
eliminates the need for human writers for short children’s stories, reducing content creation
costs while maintaining high-quality output. Additionally, the platform can be monetized
through subscription plans, premium features, or partnerships with educational institutions,
making it a cost-effective and scalable solution for interactive learning. The initial
development cost, including cloud-based AI model deployment, is outweighed by the long-
term revenue potential and educational value.

2.4.2 Operational Feasibility

The operational feasibility of Tiny Tales is high, as it can be easily integrated into existing web
and mobile platforms. The model can run on cloud servers, allowing users to generate
personalized, age-appropriate stories in real-time without requiring high-end local
hardware. Additionally, the system is designed with a user-friendly interface, enabling
parents, educators, and children to use it seamlessly. The low latency and high accessibility
ensure that users can instantly create and access unique stories, making the system highly
functional and scalable.
2.4.3 Technical Feasibility
The technical feasibility of Tiny Tales is robust due to the availability of pre-trained deep
learning models like BLIP (for image captioning) and Falcon-7B (for text generation).
These models are open-source and optimized for efficient inference, making them well-
suited for low-resource environments. The system leverages Hugging Face Transformers,
PyTorch, and NLP pipelines, ensuring a high-performance and easily maintainable
architecture. Additionally, the model can be fine-tuned for improved storytelling quality,
ensuring continued enhancement over time.

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System Requirements

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3.SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The Tiny Tales project is designed to be user-friendly and efficient for

generating children's stories. Since it is hosted on Google Colab, the system
requirements focus on ensuring smooth execution of the model while keeping
the interface intuitive and easy to navigate.
3.1 Functional Requirements
 Graphical User Interface (GUI): The project runs on Google Colab, which
provides an interactive coding environment with support for text-based
input and output.
 Story Generation Pipeline: Users provide an image or text-based input, and
the system processes it using BLIP for image captioning and Falcon-7B
for text generation.
3.2 Technologies and Languages Used
1. Python: A high-level programming language used for model
implementation, data processing, and integration.
2. Transformers & Deep Learning: BLIP for image captioning and Falcon-7B
for story generation using Hugging Face Transformers.
3. Google Colab: A cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment that supports
free GPU/TPU usage for model execution.
3.3 Debugging and Development Environment
1. Google Colab: Provides a cloud-based environment for writing and
executing Python code with built-in support for deep learning libraries.
2. Jupyter Notebooks: Used within Colab for interactive programming and
visualization.
3. Hugging Face Models: Pre-trained models are accessed through the
Hugging Face Model Hub.
3.4 Hardware Requirements
Since the model runs on Google Colab, the primary hardware requirements
are:
 Internet Connection: Required for accessing Colab and running cloud-
based models.
 Google Colab Resources: The free-tier of Colab provides access to:
o CPU or GPU (T4, P100, or V100 depending on availability).
o 12GB+ RAM (depending on session allocation).
o Cloud-based storage for datasets and model outputs.

3.5 Software Requirements

 Operating System: Any OS that supports a web browser (Windows,
macOS, Linux).
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 Web Browser: oogle Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Edge (recommended for
best compatibility with Colab).
 Python Environment: Managed through Google Colab (default Python
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Design

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3. DESIGN
3.1 System Design
The proposed system utilizes a combination of BLIP and Falcon-7B to generate engaging children’s stories
based on image and text inputs. The workflow, illustrated in Figure 5.1, follows a structured approach to
ensure accurate and meaningful story generation. The process begins with input acquisition, where an image
or text prompt is provided by the user.
For image-based input, BLIP (Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) is used to generate a caption
describing the image. The generated caption, along with user-selected themes, age groups, and time
constraints, is processed to construct a meaningful story prompt. Falcon-7B, a powerful open-source
language model, is then used to generate the final story.
Cross-validation techniques are employed to assess the accuracy and quality of the generated stories. The
system ensures coherence, grammatical correctness, and relevance to the given theme. External libraries such
as Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, Flask (for web deployment), and Google Colab (for execution) play
a crucial role in enhancing the model’s performance.

The storytelling process begins when the user selects a story theme, time limit, and target
age group. Once these preferences are set, the user provides an image as input, which
serves as the foundation for generating the story. The system then utilizes the BLIP
(Bootstrapped Language-Image Pretraining) model to analyze the image and extract key
features. Based on these features, a relevant caption is generated to describe the content of
the image. This caption is then tokenized, breaking it down into meaningful words or
phrases, followed by a filtering process that removes unnecessary words while retaining
the most relevant ones. Using this refined set of words, the system constructs a structured
story prompt, which is then fed into the Falcon-7B language model. The AI processes this
prompt and generates a complete story. Once the story is generated, it is formatted to
include a title, structured content, and a moral lesson, ensuring it is engaging and suitable
for the selected age group. Finally, the formatted story is displayed to the user, marking the
completion of the storytelling process.

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Figure 5.1: Work flow of CRNN Model

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2.6 UML Diagrams
UML, or Unified Modeling Language, is a standardized modeling language used in
software engineering to visually represent software systems. Its importance lies in
providing a common language and notation for software developers, designers,
and stakeholders to communicate and understand the structure, behavior, and
interactions of complex systems. UML diagrams such as class diagrams, sequence
diagrams, and use case diagrams help in conceptualizing, designing, documenting, and
communicating software systems, leading to better understanding, collaboration, and
more efficient development processes.
Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams are a standardized way of visually
representing software systems. They provide a way for software developers to
communicate system designs, architectures, and processes in a clear and consistent
manner. UML diagrams use various graphical elements such as boxes, lines, and arrows
to represent different aspects of a system, making it easier for stakeholders to
understand complex systems.
One of the key benefits of UML diagrams is that they help in the visualization of the
system's architecture and design. By using different types of diagrams such as class
diagrams, sequence diagrams, and use case diagrams, developers can create a
comprehensive picture of the system, which can be used as a blueprint for
implementation.
Another important aspect of UML diagrams is that they help in the communication
between different stakeholders involved in the software development process. For
example, developers can use UML diagrams to explain their designs to non-technical
stakeholders such as project managers or clients, helping them to understand the system
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Implementation

Implementation code :

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pip install opencv-python
import opencv
from transformers import BlipProcessor, BlipForConditionalGeneration
from PIL import Image
import requests
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Load pre-trained BLIP model and processor from Hugging Face

processor = BlipProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")
model = BlipForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")

# Function to display the image

def display_image(image_path):
image = Image.open(image_path)
plt.imshow(image)
plt.axis('off')
plt.show()

# Function to generate a caption for an image using BLIP

def generate_caption(image_path):
image = Image.open(image_path) # Open the image

inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt") # Preprocess the image and prepare input for BLIP
model

out = model.generate(**inputs) # Generate caption

caption = processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True) # Decode the generated tokens to a readable

caption

return caption

# Replace with your image path

image_path = "/content/story_image2.jpg" # Display the image

display_image(image_path)
# Generate and print the caption

caption = generate_caption(image_path)
print(f"Image contains: {caption}")

#nlp preprocessing on the text obtained

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from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
import nltk
nltk.download('punkt_tab')
tokenized_corpus = word_tokenize(caption)
print(tokenized_corpus)
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
nltk.download('stopwords')
stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
filtered_corpus = [word for word in tokenized_corpus if word not in stop_words]
print(filtered_corpus)
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
# List of words to use in the story
filtered_corpus=['green', 'forest', 'mountains', 'trees']

# Function to show options for themes, time limits, and age groups
def show_story_options():
print("Select the theme for the story:")
print("1) Adventurous")
print("2) Friendships/Family Relations")
print("3) Funny")
print("4) Moral")
theme_choice = int(input("Enter the number corresponding to the theme: "))

print("\nSelect the time limit for the story:")

print("1) 5-minute story")
print("2) 10-minute story")
time_limit_choice = int(input("Enter the number corresponding to the time limit: "))

print("\nSelect the age group for the story:")

print("1) 3-6 years")
print("2) 6-9 years")
print("3) 9-12 years")
age_group_choice = int(input("Enter the number corresponding to the age group: "))

# Mapping user choices to the corresponding values

themes = {1: "Adventurous", 2: "Friendships/Family Relations", 3: "Funny", 4: "Moral"}
time_limits = {1: 5, 2: 10} # Time limit in minutes
age_groups = {1: "3-6", 2: "6-9", 3: "9-12"}

selected_theme = themes.get(theme_choice, "Adventurous")

selected_time_limit = time_limits.get(time_limit_choice, 5)
selected_age_group = age_groups.get(age_group_choice, "3-6")

return selected_theme, selected_time_limit, selected_age_group

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# Function to generate a story with title, content, and moral
def generate_story(theme, time_limit, age_group, words):
words_str = ", ".join(words) # Join the word list into a string

# Construct a prompt with clearer instructions

prompt = (
f"Write a kid-friendly story using these words: {words_str}. "
f"The story should be {theme} for children aged {age_group}. "
f"It should be simple, fun, and engaging, suitable for a {time_limit}-minute story. "
"Please format the output as follows:\n\n"
"Title: [The title of the story]\n"
"Story: [The complete story, including the beginning, middle, and end. Make sure it is engaging for children.]\
n"
"Conclusion: [The meaningful moral or conclusion that relates to the theme.]\n"
)
#NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
model_name = "tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct" # Open-source model, NO API REQUIRED
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name)

story_generator = pipeline("text-generation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer, device="cpu")

# Generate the story with title and moral included

response = story_generator(prompt, max_length=2000, num_return_sequences=1, temperature=0.7)

# Return the generated story text

return response[0]["generated_text"]

# Main function to run the full program

def main():
print("Welcome to the Kids Story Generator!\n")

# Show options for story theme, time limit, and age group
selected_theme, selected_time_limit, selected_age_group = show_story_options()

print(f"\nGenerating a {selected_theme} story for age group {selected_age_group} with a

{selected_time_limit}-minute duration...\n")

# Generate the story based on user selection

story = generate_story(selected_theme, selected_time_limit, selected_age_group, filtered_corpus)

print("\nHere is your generated story:\n")

print(story)
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# Run the program
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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Results

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 RESULTS
Figno:

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Social Impact

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4. SOCIAL IMPACT
The Tiny Tales project, which leverages AI-powered storytelling, has the potential to
create a profound social impact by making storytelling more accessible, engaging, and
inclusive for children. By using advanced AI models like BLIP and Falcon 7B, the project
fosters creativity, enhances literacy, and promotes interactive learning through multiple
storytelling formats, including text, images, audiobooks, and videos.
Key Social Benefits of Tiny Tales
 Enhanced Literacy and Learning: By generating engaging, age-appropriate stories,
Tiny Tales supports early literacy development, helping children build reading
comprehension skills and fostering a lifelong love for storytelling.
 Accessibility for Diverse Audiences: The project ensures that children from various
backgrounds, including those with visual or reading impairments, can enjoy stories
through audio narration and interactive multimedia formats.
 Cultural Inclusivity and Representation: By allowing AI to create diverse narratives,
Tiny Tales can introduce children to different cultures, traditions, and perspectives,
promoting empathy and global awareness.
 Encouraging Creativity and Imagination: Interactive storytelling enables children to
explore new ideas and develop their creativity by visualizing and engaging with AI-
generated stories.
 Parental and Educational Support: The project serves as a valuable tool for parents
and educators, offering personalized and engaging content to support early childhood
education and bedtime storytelling.
Fostering Digital Innovation in Storytelling
The integration of AI into storytelling not only modernizes traditional narratives but also
democratizes content creation. By enabling instant story generation based on text or
images, Tiny Tales bridges the gap between technology and creative expression, ensuring
that every child has access to a world of imagination.
In summary, Tiny Tales empowers children with AI-driven storytelling that enhances
literacy, inclusivity, and creativity. By making storytelling more interactive and accessible,
it supports education, fosters cultural diversity, and enriches the storytelling experience for
young minds worldwide.

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Conclusion & Future Work

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 3. CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

4. CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK

In conclusion, the Tiny Tales project harnesses the power of AI-driven storytelling to
revolutionize how children engage with stories. By integrating advanced language and
vision models like BLIP and Falcon 7B, the project offers a dynamic, interactive, and
accessible storytelling experience. Whether through text-based narratives, illustrated
storybooks, audiobooks, or video stories, Tiny Tales fosters creativity, enhances
literacy, and promotes inclusivity in early childhood education.
The project's ability to generate personalized and diverse stories based on text or images
makes it a valuable tool for parents, educators, and young readers. Its adaptability
across multiple formats ensures that children from various backgrounds and learning
styles can enjoy immersive storytelling experiences. As AI technology continues to
evolve, Tiny Tales has the potential to transform storytelling into a more interactive,
engaging, and inclusive process for children worldwide.
Future Work
 Enhancing Story Generation Models: Future improvements could focus on refining
the AI models by integrating more advanced natural language processing (NLP)
techniques, such as reinforcement learning or fine-tuning on child-friendly datasets, to
enhance story coherence and creativity.
 Interactive & Personalized Storytelling: Implementing interactive elements where
children can influence story outcomes through choices or voice commands could make
storytelling more engaging and personalized.
 Multilingual Support: Expanding language support would allow children from
diverse linguistic backgrounds to enjoy stories in their native languages, promoting
multilingual literacy and cultural exchange.
 Mobile & Web Application Development: Developing a mobile or web-based
application would make Tiny Tales more accessible, enabling children and parents to
generate and enjoy AI-created stories on demand.
 Audiobook & Animated Story Enhancements: Advancing the audiobook feature
with expressive AI-generated narration and integrating simple animations could make
stories more immersive and engaging for young readers.
 Educational Integration: Collaborating with educators to align generated stories with
early learning curricula could transform Tiny Tales into an effective educational tool
for literacy development.
 Crowdsourced Story Datasets: Encouraging parents, educators, and young readers to
contribute story ideas and illustrations could enrich the dataset, making AI-generated
stories more diverse .

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