Around the world, millions of parents are eager to get their children to learn English – a skill that is increasingly seen as crucial to gain global academic and career opportunities. However, this is complicated by the overwhelming shortage of teachers.
according to UNESCOby 2030, there will be 44 million teachers worldwide. Especially in Latin America, three million teachers will be needed. As there are fewer and fewer teachers and too many classrooms in the classroom, they need one-on-one attention, such as language learning, and even harder.
As a result, proficiency in the UK remains a challenge for the region, with economic barriers significantly limiting opportunities for learning extracurricular teaching. For example, for the vast majority of parents, smaller groups and even private tutoring is still unbearable.
More importantly, there are big differences in the success of British education in Latin America Proficiency Ratio is better than Brazil.
Enter Ivan Crewkovis the founder of the mission of democratizing English education in Latin America.
By identifying key gaps in the Edtech landscape (the lack of accessible, effective children’s AI tools) Crewkov developed Buddy.ai, the world’s first voice-based AI Tutor designed specifically for children.
With its animated characters, real-time conversational abilities and voice recognition technology, Buddy.ai simulates a one-to-one classroom experience in the palm of a child’s hand.
The app combines multimodal-based AVATAR AI tutoring to facilitate game-based learning, which it says can engage children and enhance learning.
Its child-friendly voice recognition technology is created from scratch, with over 25,000 hours of children’s speech and the ability to recognize a range of accents, speech patterns changes, different volumes and background noise.
As a result, the app successfully surpassed Google and Apple’s native automatic voice recognition system when used by children.
Unlike other ready-made speech recognition technologies, it complies with the Federal Trade Commission’s online privacy protection laws for children (COPPA).
Krukov delivered a speech in Brazil on Tuesday Web Summit Rio About how he thought about his daughter to develop this solution to Latin America’s biggest educational problem to ensure the application is secure.
As Latin American countries respond quickly to their release, the necessity of Buddy.ai is obvious. According to data shared with versus Brazil recorded the largest number of new partner users in the first quarter of 2024, with a total of 1 million registrations, accounting for 18% of new registrations. Latin American Reports By the company. This is not surprising, as Brazil records the lowest English proficiency in the region at 30% 2024.
Perhaps one of the most inspiring results in the app is the way it is used to help immigrant children learn English in the United States.
According to the company, these students find themselves in a challenging situation and must adapt to unfamiliar academic, social and linguistic environments at once.
Buddy.ai provides personalized language learning experiences that can be achieved by integrating students into new communities during unquestionably complex transitions.
Under Crewkov, Buddy.ai has received over 50 million downloads since its launch in 2017.
It’s closed $11 million At the end of 2024, several investors voted for confidence in Crewkov’s innovative solutions, including One Way Ventures, J Ventures, Point 72 Ventures and Goodwater Capital among others.
Today, the app has more than 20 million students worldwide each year, of which 9 million live in Latin America.
Through his dialogue language learning application, Crewkov has turned his sights on groundbreaking education in Latin America, helping one student connect with an increasingly global world at a time.
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