Possible to do text to voice for early ages/grades?

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jake.e.wilson

June 15, 2018 23:10

I just signed up my Preschool and Kindergarden age children up for Khan Academy. They love the math stuff. But unfortunately, kids of this age are typically just barely learning how to read and have a LOT of trouble reading the questions. It's such a problem that the questions become a challenge about reading instead of the intended challenge about math. Even if they know the answer easily but can't read all the words in the question, then they get it wrong and become frustrated very quickly. It's really bad because they can easily do this type of math but still get it wrong because of the words in the sentence.

So my question, has Khan Academy considered building in some sort of text-to-speech system for questions? Something so that kids can listen to the question (and I guess the possible answers) and then pick an answer? This would help tremendously with all questions in the Early Age, Kindergarden and 1st Grade levels. Maybe even the 2nd grade levels.

This would also come in very handy for mentally handicapped users who are in need of accessibility options.

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carol

July 26, 2021 17:00
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Admiral Betasin

June 15, 2018 23:15
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Hi jake.e.wilson,

Thanks for your post!

I've seen a lot of similar requests, which increases the chance of the feature being added.

Here's an answer that's helpful regarding this request:

https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360003779471/comments/360000764811
Patty.Wooley

January 25, 2019 04:38
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I have 5 year old twins I just introduced to Khan Academy math. They LOVED it, until they had to read to figure out the preschool math questions. They are just learning to read and can figure out simple questions, but the wordier problems leave them so frustrated they have decided that they can only use Khan Academy when someone will do it with them. They went from loving their "big girl" math to dreading it :-( I love the preschool math available, but preschool and kindergartners are not expected to be readers yet and a "read to me" option needs to be incorporated. We primarily use ipads, and accessibility features that read to the children are just frustrating and not practical to use.Please increase the access to learning early math skills by having an easy "read to me" button in the early maths. Thank you :-)
Gie Ke

March 25, 2020 18:34
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This would be So helpful. The only reason our younger child is able to learn Spanish on Roseta stone is because they can click on the "read out loud" button; read aloud feature would be extremely helpful for younger kids using Khan Academy math. I do hope you will consider adding this feature

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