diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index af26efe..7a4959f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 **/audio
 *.mp3
 *.webm
+.env
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6649fdb..2589aaa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A learning arena to learn about the current AI tool landscape
 
 ## Subprojects
 
-### [Speach to Speach AI Assistant]
+### [Speech to Speech AI Assistant](./speech-speech/)
 AI assistant chat with speech recognition and tts responses
 
 Fullstack  
diff --git a/speech-speech/README.md b/speech-speech/README.md
index 7774f46..c27c0ef 100644
--- a/speech-speech/README.md
+++ b/speech-speech/README.md
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ Fullstack
 ## Setup
 ```
 cd frontend
-npm init
+npm install
 npm run build
 
 cd ../backend
 # optionally setup virtual environment of your choice
-python3 -m pip install -r requirements
+python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
 # Running 
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ example `backend/.env`
 ```
 OPEN_API_KEY=<apikey>
 ```
+
 ```
 cd backend
+source .env
 uvicorn --port 8080 api:app
 ```
diff --git a/speech-speech/backend/.env b/speech-speech/backend/.env
deleted file mode 100644
index b596733..0000000
--- a/speech-speech/backend/.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-OPENAI_API_KEY=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