Students Alert: AI powered Microsoft Reading Coach is now free
"Reading Coach" engages students and improve reading fluency with AI-powered stories and personalized practice, and also help them improve pronunciation. Read More
San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has made its AI powered ‘Reading Coach’ not only free but also launched it as a standalone App that will make it easily accessible.
"Reading Coach" app uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to give personalised feedback on reading scores and offer specific suggestions to improve pronunciation and is useful app especially for students.
The app engages students and improve reading fluency with AI-powered stories and personalized practice.
"With the latest AI technology, we have an opportunity to provide learners with personalized, engaging, and transformative reading experiences. Reading Coach, a Learning Accelerator now powered by generative AI, does just that", Microsoft said in a blog post highlighting how important fluency in reading is for a student’s academic success.
'Personalized reading practice'
With Reading Coach, Microsoft also intends to help educators and parents looking for ways to help students improve reading fluency in a way that keeps them engaged.
"Reading Coach was already providing learners with personalized reading practice, instant feedback about pronunciation and fluency, while also giving insights back to educators. Today we’re sharing new features that will fuel student agency and motivation with dynamically created stories that adapt to their reading level and individual challenges", Microsoft said.
Reading Coach takes a unique approach to implementing generative AI with guardrails.
"Learners select the story’s protagonist, setting, and are provided with choices that alter the plot of the story as they read. Reading Coach combines these inputs with the learner’s selected reading level, and over time, words they mispronounce to dynamically create personalized stories that keep students engaged and in the driver seat", Microsoft said.
"Students stay engaged with the power to pick a path of a story while they progress through the chapters. The story content is moderated for quality, safety, and age appropriateness. And in addition to creating AI-powered stories, learners can also pick leveled passages from the curated ReadWorks library", it added.
Reading Coach intrinsically motivates learners to continue advancing their skills in several ways. They can unlock new story settings and characters, earn badges that reward their efforts, and see their pronunciation and fluency improvements in progress reports.
Announcing that the app is free so that, Microsoft said, Reading Coach is more broadly available than ever and also said it is compatibe with all devices.
"Learners can read on the device of their choice, at home or school. It will be available on the web and as a Windows App, at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account", Microsoft said.
Microsoft has made easier for teachers to create Reading Coach practice assignments by adding integration with popular Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas, which will be available in late Spring 2024.
"These new Reading Coach features build on top of the passage generation and comprehension question generation in Reading Progress which will be available for preview late January 2024. With the use of AI in an impactful, safe, responsible way, we believe that personalized learning at scale is within reach", the company said.
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