谷歌閱讀嘗試提高孩子們的閱讀和口語能力

谷歌閱讀嘗試提高孩子們的閱讀和口語能力

The current global situation with COVID-19 has paved the way for a surge in both the demand and supply of apps for young ones. Many of these take the form of games or videos that keep kids distracted while there are a few try to impart lessons as well. Google is unsurprisingly jumping in on that trend and, just as unsurprisingly, it is putting its favorite AI and machine learning features to work in helping kids get better at reading and speaking even while stuck at home.

COVID-19目前的全球形勢為年輕人應用程序的需求和供應激增鋪平了道路。其中很多都采取游戲或視頻的形式，讓孩子們分心，同時也有一些嘗試傳授課程。谷歌正不出所料地加入這一潮流，同樣不出所料的是，它正將自己最喜愛的人工智能和機器學習功能，應用于幫助孩子們在家里閱讀和說話時變得更好。

The Read Along Android app is pretty much a combination of various Google technologies and experiments over the past years. It is, to some extent, the evolution of a similar experimental app it launched in India last year known as Bolo. On the surface, the way Read Along works is pretty simple, asking a kid to read out a story or piece of text out loud. Behind the scenes, of course, it showcases Google’s prowess in machine learning fields.

Read Along Android應用程序是過去幾年谷歌各種技術(shù)和實驗的結(jié)合。在某種程度上，這是它去年在印度推出的一款類似實驗應用程序Bolo的演變。從表面上看，閱讀的方式很簡單，讓孩子大聲朗讀一個故事或一段文字。當然，在幕后，它展示了谷歌在機器學習領(lǐng)域的實力。

Read Along by Google specifically uses text to speech technologies to read text out loud but perhaps the more interesting part is speech recognition. Reading buddy Diya, a more personable representation of an AI assistant, is able to detect words that kids struggle with and help them overcome that hurdle in a game-like fashion.

Google的Read-Along專門使用文本到語音技術(shù)來大聲讀出文本，但也許更有趣的部分是語音識別。閱讀伙伴Diya是人工智能助手的一個更為形象化的代表，它能夠檢測出孩子們難以理解的單詞，并幫助他們以類似游戲的方式克服這一障礙。

As with anything involving kids and especially Google, there will be some concerns about privacy so Google directly addresses those questions. After the initial download of the app and stories, Read Along works completely offline with all the speech processing happening on the device itself. No data is ever sent to its servers, it promises, and it doesn’t even require any form of account to log into.

對于任何涉及到孩子，尤其是谷歌的內(nèi)容，都會涉及到一些隱私問題，所以谷歌直接回答了這些問題。在首次下載應用程序和故事之后，Read Along完全脫機工作，所有的語音處理都在設備上進行。它承諾，不會向服務器發(fā)送任何數(shù)據(jù)，甚至不需要登錄任何形式的賬戶。

Read Along by Google is designed for kids ages five and older and supports nine languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi. The app is only available on Android and still in early access so it might still change significantly or even disappear later on.

Google的Read-Along是為5歲及以上的兒童設計的，支持9種語言，包括英語、西班牙語、葡萄牙語和印地語。該應用程序只在Android上可用，而且仍處于早期測試狀態(tài)，因此它可能會發(fā)生重大變化，甚至在以后消失。