Three elderly Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan RoSenseThal – worried about Large children, so she left the technology project that can encourage a new language. It has been paid, because the company recently increases the $ 4.8 million fund funds.
The newly released gadget is called Dex And almost the same as high technology with high technology with a camera lens on one side and the touchscreen on the other side. When the child uses the device to take the image of an object, AI uses the image recognition technology to identify the object and translate words to the selected language. Also have a lesson and the interactive story of the story.
When the language learning applications are focused like the kids duolingo, Dex argues that it takes more approach that states the hand experience, which allows children to sink in the language.
“We try to teach the original language in the real world in a interactive way,” Cao to Techcrunch. “Children not only listen to or do what they tell you, but more true, they actually think, making, interactions, and just want to see the concept and object.”
Dex is designed for children 3 to 8 years and now support Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. It also offers support for 34 dialects, including Egyptian Arabic, Taiwanese Mandarin, and Spanish Mexico.
In addition to object recognition, dex display interactive story library that encourages children actively involved in the narrative. When the story is open, the children are asked to respond, such as the greeting character in the language they are studying.
The device comes with a dedicated application for the old man to see a detailed description of the child’s progress, including the words of the culture, the story has been studied, and the number of consecutive days have been employed.
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In addition, Dex is now developing a feature that allows children to ask Ai Chathbot questions and engage in free conversations. This feature is available for some tests, but the company admits that it is not yet ready for a wider rollout. Parents can be careful about introducing a Chatbots to the children.
During the dex testing, we have a worry about the possibility of inappropriate children. Cao guarantees us “stiff safety prompts” included when language models are widely used in vision, considerations, and text-to-speech.
He said, “We have an unfavorable agent that evaluate conversations in real time and filters with a list of secure words, and more, if parents will be able to add a list of personal stop words.”
In addition, it says the AI trained using the same rough standards of the same as they found in children found in children in Britannica and other children’s encyclopedi.
In testing, AI success is ignoring the topics associated with accuse. However, knowing and translates right “guns,” something must be considered when buying the device.
In response to findings, Cao said, “arranged, I do not worry, but I think this is concerned, especially among the parents.” He added, this worry has pushing the company so that can introduce the option to refine certain words, such as a gun, cigarette, bottles, weed, cannabis.
Dex also has zero data retention policy. While this means no risk of sensitive or private image stored, one down can be a parent who is left in the darkness of the contents can be held.
The dex is also actively working with Coppa certification, which will make perks with the privacy policy conducting the online season.
Company safely secured company from Clayvc, EmbedsDingvC, parable, and upscalect. Investment famous angel includes Pinterest Founder, curated co-founder Eduardo Vivas, Lillian Weng, which is a former safety head on the opening, and Richard Wong (ex Coursera).
The device is worth $ 250, which makes the product designed for children. However, your own Dex position is more affordable alternative to rent a tutor, which can charge up to $ 80 per hour, or attending school, or several hundred dollars.
Dex says hundreds of families have bought the device.