Microsoft Makes Its AI-Powered Reading Tutor Free (techcrunch.com) 12
Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account. From a report: As of this morning, Reading Coach is accessible on the web in preview -- a Windows app is forthcoming. And soon (in late spring), Reading Coach will integrate with learning management systems such as Canva, Microsoft says. Reading Coach builds on Reading Progress, a plug-in for the education-focused version of Microsoft Teams, Teams for Education, designed to help teachers foster reading fluency in their students. Inspired by the success of Reading Progress (evidently), Microsoft launched Reading Coach in 2022 as a part of Teams for Education and Immersive Reader, the company's cross-platform assistive service for language and reading comprehension.
canva vs canvas (Score:2)
I think they are confusing "Canva" and "Canvas".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canva - graphic design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructure - Canvas LMS
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> automated feedback for reading out loud
Now that's an idea - Teddy Ruxpin on steroids. OCR so it can read a book with a kid, object/face recognition for tracking multiple children, voice recognition to listen to the kid read, and a bit of AI chatbot programming and TTS so it can help when the kid stumbles.
It could grade and provide progress reports to parents as well.
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Nope. But if they're inexpensive enough, you could put them in different outfits or otherwise customize them and have one 'reading buddy' per kid and I'd bet you could get an hour or two a day out of it. Maybe only 15 minutes at a time, but I think it would work at that scale.
Kids (at least mine) could never get enough of having things read to them, and a device that could slowly wean them from being read to, to reading it themselves, and having infinite patience for the task? As long as the parent or te
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Personalized reading practice ö (Score:2)
foreign language (Score:2)
at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft Account (Score:4, Funny)
Hey MS (Score:2)
How about you fund books for kids and libraries. Every ad dollar you spend doesn't have to go towards use of your alleged software.
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Free now, pay later.... (Score:2)