The Read Along app is designed to encourage young children to read. The website works with a number of browsers on both desktop and mobile devices, with support for more browsers on the way.
The website uses speech recognition and text-to-speech technology to help children learn to speak more than one language. Children are helped by a virtual assistant if they are having a hard time pronouncing words. Children can ask Diya for assistance.
No data is sent to its server to protect children's privacy, according to the company. The entire experience is free of ads.
The website can help people who don't have a lot of storage on their phones or schools that don't have a desktop computer. The app works without any sign-in, one of the main differences between it and the website. To keep track of the progress of different children, the website requires sign-ins on the same device.
In India, the app was renamed Read Along with additional language support for a wider audience. More than 30 million kids have used the app since it was launched.
More stories will be added to the platform through partnerships with new providers.
The website launch is one of the things we are adding. We are working with two well-known YouTube content creators to adapt some of their popular videos into storybook formats.
The Read Along app, which will be available later this year, will use the English and Hindi alphabet books and phonics books from the Kutuki learning app.