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Article: Let's Go Read! An Island Adventure from Edmark Uses Powerful Speech Recognition Technology to Help Children Learn to Read.
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- September 29, 1997
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REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1997--Edmark, developer and publisher of award-winning educational software, today announced the shipment of Let's Go Read!(TM) An Island Adventure(TM), the first in a new series of titles to help children build reading skills.
The program features powerful IBM(R) speech recognition technology that has been uniquely adapted to respond to children's voices.
"With more than 40 million Americans reading at the sixth grade level or below, the need to help young children become readers is more vital than ever," said Donna Stanger, General Manager of Edmark. "The IBM speech recognition technology we've ...