The tech giant, Google is expanding its suite of apps with the learning app aimed for primary school children in India, called Bolo. The language learning app-Bolo is for primary school children in the country in an effort to cement its grip on the world’s fastest growing internet market.
The app leverages Google’s speech recognition technology to help children figure out reading in both Hindi and English. Bolo-the Hindi word for “speak” features a range of games and tasks, including an index of 50 stories in Hindi and 40 Stories in English sourced from storyweaver.org.in. The app rewards kids as they progress in their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.
How the app works?
Bolo, which is powered by Google text-to-speech technology, first asks kids to read sentences. Then the app listens and reviews it, with the help of voice assistant called Diya. Diya can speak English as well as Hindi, and will give compliments to kids who finishes the assignments.
With the rise in use of smartphones in India, Google is looking for spreading its presence in the country. This has advantageous rural area students as it helps them in enhancing their reading skills.
What is so unique about the app?
Bolo app is aimed at helping kids who are unable to go to school or does not access to it. What’s works more in the favor is, that the app can work in offline mode as well. This has proved advantageous because children get less distracted while using the app.
So what’s in store for students…
Few words from Google source-
“We believe technology has the power to help transform teaching and learning, and have been actively directing our products, programs and philanthropy to ensure that all students are able to benefit from it,” Google said.
Let us look at Bolo’s technical aspects.
Wrapping up!
Google’s entering in India’s education market which involves about 1.5 million schools with 250 million understudies, has tremendous growth and is attracting big bucks. Yet another edutech giant-Byjus offers a learning app for students and those preparing for college. Microsoft has likewise made a push on this front. Furthermore, Facebook this week launched an online education site — called We Think Digital — to help around 1 million individuals in the Asia-Pacific region think critically and be progressively attentive about things they share on the web.