Talkamatic

Talkamatic reading and language buddy.
We offer a unique tool that increases children’s and young people’s reading comprehension.
Our technology can automatically generate a pedagogical dialog structure that can be refined and verified by a human, e.g. a writer or a teacher. The student reads in a book and then clicks on the Reading Buddy to enter in an engaging and pedagogically effective dialogue. In the dialogue, the Reading Buddy asks questions on, between, and beyond the lines and lets the student think about content, remember, and read back in the text to answer orally. This solution is applicable to all fields of education, including mathematics and science, and in different languages. Multimodal and digilogous solutions are possible; you can imagine putting a QR code in an analog book and then talking to the Reading Buddy through the phone. Teachers like to use the Reading Buddy in station work in the classroom where some students talk to the Reading Buddy and others to the teacher, and then switch. Teachers also like to use the Reading Buddy as homework aid. Students read for longer periods with the Reading Buddy because it is perceived as fun and engaging, therefore students receive more reading hours.