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Luca: AI Reading Tutor for Personalised Stories & Reading Skill Improvement

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Overview

Luca is an innovative AI-powered reading platform designed to transform children's literacy and language skills. It provides a personalised learning experience, creating custom stories and lessons to boost reading proficiency, vocabulary, and overall language development. The platform empowers children—including those struggling with reading disfluency or dyslexia—by offering a proactive and engaging educational journey. Luca's methods are grounded in evidence-based research, fostering academic, social, and economic success for young readers.

How It Works

  • Registration and Assessment: Upon registration, the reader completes an initial assessment by reading three short stories aloud.
  • Voice Data Capture: The device's microphone captures the reader's voice data during the assessment.
  • AI Analysis: Luca's proprietary AI models post-process the voice data, masking identity-relevant information for privacy, to identify specific difficult letter-sound pairs.
  • Personalised Curriculum Generation: The analysis determines the order of upcoming lessons and the content of customised stories, directly targeting the reader's challenges.
  • Continuous Learning & Progress: The platform guides readers through a simple "lesson, story, and progress" cycle, providing continuous, personalised teaching.
  • Automated Support: Luca's system eliminates the need for parents and educators to micromanage instruction, promoting self-paced learning.
  • Access: Registered users receive email access to the beta version of the Luca Reading Platform.

Use Cases

Enhance Reading Ability & Fluency
Luca provides a personalised AI reading tutor for children to improve overall reading ability, fluency, and comprehension through custom lessons and engaging stories.
Empowering Children with Dyslexia
Luca offers targeted, innovative support for readers overcoming dyslexia and reading disfluency, delivering a proactive and structured literacy journey.
Personalised Learning at Home
Parents can use Luca's tailored curriculum and automated progress tracking to maximise their child's engagement and gain insight into specific reading challenges.

Features & Benefits

  • StoryLabs™ Module: Creates customised stories tailored to a reader's specific challenges and interests, ensuring engaging and relevant reading material.
  • LUCAListens™ Module: Utilises phonetic-level automatic speech recognition to track letter-sound pairs a reader struggles with, enabling real-time intervention and support.
  • Always New Reading Material: Ensures continuous engagement with fresh, interest-based content.
  • Automated Progress Tracking: Monitors and reports on a child's reading journey, providing insights without micromanagement.
  • ProfessorAI™ Module: Evaluates progress and provides meaningful, personalised feedback and intervention strategies.
  • Personalised Learning Experience: Offers custom levels and lessons, supporting self-paced, effective learning.
  • Advanced AI Software: Leverages proprietary AI for deeply personalised reading and learning experiences.
  • Boosted Reading Proficiency: Helps improve fluency, comprehension, and lifelong learning capacity.
  • Empowering Education: Promotes a proactive, supportive environment where students achieve proficiency, even grades above their current level.

Target Audience

  • Children (readers)
  • Parents and Legal Guardians
  • Educators
  • Students struggling with reading disfluency
  • Families seeking personalised learning solutions

Pricing

  • Simple and affordable subscription plans designed for families
  • Two subscription tiers, each unlocking different AI modules and features
  • Advanced plans provide more detailed reports and tailored curriculum design
  • Free enrollment period ended on 30 June 2024
  • For the current pricing details, please visit the Luca website

FAQs

Why are LUCA Learning Platform and its services important?

Reading disfluency affects at least 20% of the population, often unnoticed. Luca helps by analysing voice recordings of customised stories to identify difficult letter-sound pairs. This analysis guides future lessons and story content, aiming to help readers overcome challenges, enhance reading proficiency, and support lifelong success.

How does LUCA Learning Platform work?

Upon registration, readers read three short stories aloud while their voice data is captured (anonymised for privacy). This data is used to train and improve Luca's AI models. Users receive email access to the platform.

What are the benefits of signing up today?

You receive a personalised learning experience, extra insights into reading struggles for parents and educators, and maximised engagement for readers.

Why should you sign up?

Luca provides both basic and advanced subscription plans, offering different access to AI modules. More advanced plans unlock enhanced curriculum and detailed performance reports, catering to diverse student needs.

How to enroll?

A parent or legal guardian must sign a Parental Release Form. Enrollment spots for the free period were limited and the offer ended on 30 June 2024.

When will LUCA be publicly available?

The Beta Version launched on 2 October 2023. Register to be among the pioneering users of the world's first AI reading tutor.

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