{"id":88887,"date":"2019-03-09T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2019-03-09T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:41:09","slug":"google-launches-bolo-app-in-india-to-help-children-read-in-english-hindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/google-launches-bolo-app-in-india-to-help-children-read-in-english-hindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Bolo app in India to help children read in English, Hindi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Google has unveiled a new app &#8216;Bolo&#8217; that aims to help primary school students learn to read in Hindi and English<\/li><li>The app has an in-built reading companion called \u2018Diya\u2019 that encourages children to read stories aloud and helps if the child is unable to pronounce a word.<\/li><li>The app which has been launched first in India.It uses Google\u2019s speech recognition and text-to-speech technology.<\/li><li>As per the ASER 2018 report,an autonomous survey unit,of all the students enrolled in grade 5 in rural India,only about half can confidently read a grade 2 level textbook.<\/li><li>This app aims to help improve the reading ability of children, as the lack of it can significantly impact further education and ultimately children\u2019s ability to realise their full potential.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled a new app &#8216;Bolo&#8217; that aims to help primary school students learn to read in Hindi and English The app has an in-built reading companion called \u2018Diya\u2019 that encourages children to read stories aloud and helps if the child is unable to pronounce a word. The app which has been launched first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/google-launches-bolo-app-in-india-to-help-children-read-in-english-hindi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google launches Bolo app in India to help children read in English, Hindi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6203,2708,6204],"class_list":["post-88887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-bolo-app","tag-google","tag-primary-school-children","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704867356},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}