Google launches New Bolo app to tutor children to read Hindi, English

The app currently offers fifty Hindi and forty English stories from Story weaver, the open source digital platform for multilingual  children's stories from Bengaluru-based organisation Pratham Books

Google has unveiled  a new app 'Bolo' that aims to help primary school students learn to read in Hindi and English.

Bolo features an animated character 'Diya', that encourages kids to read stories aloud and helps if the kid is unable to pronounce a word. The app was earlier piloted in about two hundred villages in state.

The app presently offers fifty Hindi and forty English stories from Storyweaver, the open source digital platform for multilingual  children's stories from Bengaluru-based organisation Pratham Books. Google said it'll soon expand the catalogue with more stories from totally different partners.

"We have designed the app to work offline, therefore users need to just download the under 50MB app once and then they need access to close to a hundred stories in Hindi and English that the kids will scan aloud and improve their reading skills," said Google India Product Manager Nitin Kashyap. Over the next 6 months, Google are working closely with four of its non-profit-making partners - Pratham Education Foundation, space to scan, Saajha and Kaivalya Education Foundation (a Piramal Initiative) to require the app to a lot of kids and any expand its efforts across the country.

The android app, that is being launched in India initial, is high-powered by Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech technology. it's offered as a free transfer on Google Play Store for all smartphones running android 4.4 or later. the corporate is also looking at shortly expanding the app to different indic languages like Bengali. To ensure privacy of the kid, all personal data forever stays on device. The users are also not asked for details like email ID and gender for work into the app, Google said in a very statement.