K12 Content Digitization: The Power of Partnerships

Almost nothing in this world survives in isolation. Even a seed needs water, soil and sunlight to work in tandem for it to grow. Similarly, a digital publishing platform has to cater to your requirements from different angles. In this case, content creation, publishing and distribution. 

If every other publishing platform offers such assistance, what is it that makes KITABOO stand apart? Yes! You guessed right. It’s the partnerships we offer. In this article we’ll explore how these powerful partnerships enhance your K12 digital content. Let’s dive right in! 

A Partnership with Microsoft Immersive Reader

The Microsoft Immersive Reader is a tool designed to make K12 digital content more accessible. It works towards supporting the development of a student's reading & writing skills, through its various features. 

Accessibility Features:

Its text-decoding solutions assist students with learning or other difficulties.  With the ability to control the pacing of the narration, the gender of the voice, the background color, font size and spacing between the words, struggling students can customize their reading experience to a large extent. 

Skill Development Features:

The dictation tool helps improve writing skills. Students can dictate their writing and the tool will read it back for them, thereby enabling them to identify errors. 

Similarly, the read-aloud feature helps students stay focused on the main ideas of the text. It also improves comprehension and increases language fluency.  

All this, combined with KITABOO’s existing features bridges gaps in terms of learning differences, language barriers and a whole lot more.

A Partnership with Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a dedicated text-to-speech service. With it, publishers can create completely speech-enabled eBooks. This is especially useful when creating interactive eBooks for younger learners. Here’s how it works. 

Synthesizes Speech to Resemble Human Voices:

Using deep learning technologies, the software offers dozens of life-like voices, in any gender, across a range of languages. Since it supports lexicons and SSML tags, you as a publisher, can modify the voices available to suit your needs and also control aspects such as pronunciation, pitch, volume, and speed rate.

Easy Integrations: 

Not only can your entire eBook be speech-enabled, you can also use the Amazon Polly API to integrate speech synthesis into an existing application. 

Apart from this, your speech-enabled interactive eBooks can be created in standard formats such as MP3 and OGG, making them available locally with apps, from the cloud, or on other devices for offline listening. 

Visual Integrations: 

Amazon Polly can also be used to provide an enhanced visual experience such as karaoke-style word highlighting and speech-synchronized facial animation. 

KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly to facilitate 100% automated support for English and European languages. However, for languages such as Chinese and Arabic, KITABOO offers 60% automation with 40% manual work to sync the audio content with the text. 

AI-Powered Learning Assistance & a Powerful Content Player

K.AI – KITABOO’s AI-powered, learning assistant is designed to make learning fun, interactive, and engaging. It empowers educators and students to create MCQs, flashcards, learning objectives, and chapter summaries, instantly.

In addition, the KITABOO 6.0 Player, renders content at lightning speeds. It also allows users to view resources and pages side by side, making it easier to compare and contrast information.

Together, these features truly empower the K12 learner.

A Partnership with Google Cloud

Partnering with Google Cloud has enabled us to enhance our digital publishing capabilities. We now utilize Google Cloud’s scalable and reliable infrastructure to manage and deliver content to you, seamlessly.

Another way you benefit from this is by accessing Google Cloud’s data analytics capabilities to derive insights from your content to drive greater engagement. 

Conclusion

While every industry, sector and market today has been directly impacted by technology, and more specifically, by digitization it’s not always that this digitization is implemented well. 

A large-scale digital transformation requires a shift in perspective, a broader vision, and the technical skills to bring about that vision to life.  Our partnerships are here, to help you do just that. When they come together, you can rest assured the product you’re creating has had all the nurturing required to not just survive, but to thrive. 

For those of you, who’ve just begun considering the move to digitization, read our previous article to get started.  If however, you’d like to explore how else KITABOO can help streamline the process download our guide. 

Thanks for reading! 

With over 5 million active users, KITABOO is a high-scale digital textbook platform that helps you create, publish & distribute your educational content.