Throughout recent years, in excess of 30 million kids have read in excess of 120 million stories on Read Along. The app, which was first released as Bolo in India in 2019 and released worldwide as Read Along the following year, helps kids learn to read independently with the help of a reading assistant, Diya.
As kids read stories aloud, Diya listens and gives both correctional and encouraging feedback to help kids develop their reading skills. Read Along has been an Android app so far, and to make it accessible to additional users, we have launched the public beta of the website version. The website contains the same magic: Diya’s help and hundreds of well illustrated stories across several languages.
With the web version, parents can let their children use Read Along on bigger screens by simply logging into a browser from laptops or PCs at readalong.google.com. Just like the Android app, all the speech recognition happens in the browser so children’s voice data remains private and we don’t send it to any servers. You can learn more about data processing on the website version by reading our privacy policy.
Google has launched a website for its Read Along app for encouraging small kids to practice reading. The website, which is introduced as a public beta, works with Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers on Desktop and Android, with support for iOS and more browsers such as Safari coming soon.
The idea of the website is similar to the app: Children can learn to speak languages like English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati and Urdu by reading stories using Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech text. A menial helper named Diya helps the children articulate words in the event that it detects they are struggling. Children can also ask Diya for help in speaking obscure words.
The company asserted that just like the app, all the speech recognition process takes put on the browser locally and no data is sent to its servers to safeguard children’s privacy. Plus, the entire experience is promotion free.
While the app enjoyed the benefit of offline usage, the website can help individuals who have low storage on the telephone or schools that have desktop computers. One of the other significant differentiators between the website and the app is that the last option works with no sign-in. The new website mandates Google account sign-ins on the same gadget to monitor the progress of various children.
Google first launched the app as Bolo in India in 2019 with support for Hindi and English and renamed it Read Along with extra language support for a more extensive crowd in 2020. The search goliath noticed that since its send off the app has helped in excess of 30 million kids read more than 120 million stories.
The company said it’s partnering with new content providers to add more stories to the stage.
The website also opens up new opportunities for teachers and education leaders around the world, who can use Read Along as a reading practice tool for students in schools. The product supports multiple popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Edge, with support for iOS and more browsers such as Safari coming soon. With the sign-in choice, you can login from an extraordinary record for every kid on the same gadget. We recommend using Google Workspace for Education accounts in schools and Google accounts with Family Link at home.
Notwithstanding the website send off, we are also adding some brand-new stories. We have partnered with two well-realized YouTube content creators, ChuChu TV and USP Studios, to adapt some of their popular videos into a storybook format. Our partnership with Kutuki continues as we adapt their excellent collection of English and Hindi alphabet books and phonics books for early readers; those titles will be available later this year.
