Google India launches Bolo, a speech-recognising app to teach kids read in Hindi, English

Bolo, a new app by Google is what the company has envisioned as a part of its efforts to help the children in rural, as well as urban, India in reading textbooks in Hindi and English. Google is going Apple way by focusing on the segment concerned with primary education to uplift the ecosystem by making digital platforms more accessible to rural India. Google Bolo is an app developed by engineers that reads out stories, poems in Hindi, offers puzzles to children so that they can learn right within the app.

Powered by speech recognition and text-to-speech technology at its heart, Bolo app reads stories in Hindi and English out loud, followed by a pause where the user (child or parent) has to repeat the same sentence. The app has a voice assistant called Diya who walks the user through the guidelines to access the app, in addition to offering suggestions.