Local education tech startup, BrookieKids, has launched a groundbreaking digital library featuring over 50 Mandarin voice-interactive stories, which will grow with a monthly release of new stories.
Through these engaging, animated tales, children can converse verbally with the stories, boosting their conversational skills and Mandarin language proficiency in a fun and interactive way.
Questions are posed in every story, and the speech AI captures children's verbal responses, guiding the story's direction based on their choices.
Accessible via the mobile application BrookieKids, short for Bilingual Rookies, the stories are designed to create more opportunities for pre-schoolers and lower primary students aged 3 to 8 years old, to engage in playful and meaningful conversations in Mandarin within the comfort of their homes.
The new Speech AI-powered digital library in BrookieKids was developed in collaboration with the Confucius Institute at NTU. It is adapted from the Confucious Institute's pre-school Mandarin curriculum, which has been purchased by over 500 pre-schools across Singapore. The platform is also scalable to host content for other mother tongues like Malay and Tamil.
BrookieKids is supported by the NTU Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) initiative, which was launched last year to help NTU students, alumni and faculty, accelerate their innovations into the marketplace.
