As per the Annual Status of Education Report 2019, just 16 % of children  in Class 1 can read  the text at the prescribed level. 40 % of students can't identify letters. The report says that the absence of age appropriate skills  in the beginning years is alarming, and this could influence the whole training in India. An enormous shortage of competent teachers is also a significant challenge in our school education system. According to the District Information System for Education (DISE), 18% of teachers in India had no professional  qualification in teaching. Most of the teachers lack simple expertise in communicative English. Nevertheless, over the past year, a few government run corporation schools in Chennai are actually learning English in a different method. An AI based virtual voice mentor will help them to increase the literacy levels of theirs while making learning fun and interactive.

Learning Matters, an ED tech business based in Bangalore, is actually attempting to solve this considerable gap of school training with the assistance of AI and Natural Language Processing. Founded in 2016, the company has come up with Tara, an interactive, personalized instructor assistant.

Now let me explain to you how TARA works . Tara - a NLP powered, virtual voice mentor is a powerful instructor assistant that operates on Amazon's Echo Dot, Google Home, and smartphones. According to the cloud, Tara utilizes Amazon's hardware, speech-to-text, as well as text-to-speech incorporated with Learning matters' proprietary content delivery methods for voice based platforms. Tara is able to mimic a human teacher. This is done by listening, responding to the learner's response, correction, and feedback. Tara also provides instruction to teachers.

The learner can choose a subject , as well as Tara starts the lesson by introducing the concept. She then describes the primary concepts, keywords and lastly, assesses the learner's comprehension through different kinds of assessments and exercises. When a student makes a mistake, Tara corrects and describes what the error was. students can also request Tara to repeat part  of a lesson or  exercises. If a learner completes one lesson, they move on to the subsequent.

Today let us show you exactly how to encourage government facilities. Tara has been used for more than a year in different institutions as well as organizations and is teaching communicative English to both students as well as adults. The solution is helping students and teachers in a number of Chennai corporation schools  and a few private, affordable schools in Tamil Nadu. . Many Non Government Organizations that offer training to underprivileged children in Tamil Nadu will also be obtaining assistance from this AI based voice assistant to train their teachers. The company has signed an MoU with the Govt of Karnataka to offer educational remedies in the districts of Raichur and Yadgir as well as has pitched Tara to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt of India for a project across school  in Chandigarh. The business is also in talks with a number of other NGOs in Nasik as well as Pune.

Tara can teach anyone , anytime, anything, and no specific training is necessary to make use of the tool. Teachers are taught how to use Tara with an individual, small group, and a large group of students in a single session There's no complicated handling or management to be taught. With basic voice commands, any learner is able to communicate with the system.