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The AI read a scanned storybook and flagged the words his child is not ready for

Scanned a storybook with his phone and had the AI OCR it and compare it against the list of words and sound patterns his kid knows, flagging the irregular words and new sounds to cover before reading.

How it works

  1. He scans a storybook with his phone
  2. The AI reads it with OCR
  3. Compares it against the list of words and sound patterns his kid knows
  4. Flags irregular words and new sounds to cover before reading

Why it’s worth knowing

Knowing the hard words before the page turns is a parent trick, automated.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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