An AI-Powered Reading Tutor for Every Child

According to Education Week, 75 percent of all fourth graders in the U.S. read below their grade level. Early reading assessment and intervention are key to a student’s success. A running record, a method for evaluating a child’s reading level, requires more than 10 minutes of a teacher’s attention for recurring mandatory assessment. A class of 20 students equates to more than three hours of assessment, three to four times per year.

Plabook, an intelligent platform that helps students learn to read, automates reading assessments, such as oral reading fluency, dyslexia screening, running records, comprehension, and phonemic awareness. The app listens to a child read aloud, makes an assessment, and generates a digital running record.

Data Monsters used the NVIDIA Riva Speech AI SDK to build accurate speech capabilities into the Plabook application with voice recordings from hundreds of kids with varying accents and reading levels.

Plabook improves student reading levels and increases literacy skills and comprehension. The platform also saves teachers time since the AI manages the recordings and highlights errors that they only need to validate. The process requires minutes, versus hours, of a teacher’s time for an entire class.