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San Francisco \u2013 Tech giant Google has introduced a new website, Read Along, to help kids learn to read independently with the help of an animated reading assistant named Diya.<\/p>\n
Read Along has been an Android app so far, which was first released as Bolo in India in 2019 and released globally as Read Along the following year.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo make it accessible to more users, we have launched the public beta of the website version,\u201d Tasnim Khan, a software engineer for Read Along, said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe website contains the same magic: Diya\u2019s help and hundreds of well-illustrated stories across several languages,\u201d Khan added.<\/p>\n
With the web version, parents can let their children use Read Along on bigger screens by logging into a browser from smartphones, laptops or PCs at readalong.google.com.<\/p>\n
Just like the Android app, all the speech recognition happens in the browser, so children\u2019s voice data remains private and is not sent to any servers.<\/p>\n
The company said that as kids read stories aloud, Diya listens and gives both correctional and encouraging feedback to help them develop their reading skills.<\/p>\n