Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams has already been providing learners with personalized reading practice, and instant feedback about pronunciation and fluency. At the BETT show last month they announced Reading Coach as a standalone app that also provides personalized, engaging, consistent, and independent reading fluency practice.
Reading Coach is available for free as a Windows application and a web app to use in the classroom or at home with a Microsoft account.
Reading Coach allows learners to create unique AI-generated stories by choosing characters and settings from a curated collection of options. The AI-generated story is moderated for content quality, safety and age appropriateness following Microsoft’s Responsible AI guidelines. Learners read the story in the Immersive Reader accessible reading tool that has been shown to especially support struggling readers.
Reading Coach is now available in public preview to use at home. To get started, sign-up at https://coach.microsoft.com
As learners read the story out loud, speech-to-text artificial intelligence analyzes their reading fluency, detects words they find challenging, and records the readers’ accuracy, speed and time spent reading.
Readers get to choose what happens in each story chapter, charting their own reading journey through the story. Words they found challenging in the previous chapter are automatically included in the next chapter. This makes the practice immediately adaptive. Readers also get fluency coaching on the words they found challenging after each story chapter. Effort-focused badges, unlocking new characters and settings for the next story keep the learners engaged in the flow of reading and can motivate even reluctant readers.
This video shows how it works.
Take a look at Reading Coach here.
