Mumbai: Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who advocates greater participation of women in development of technology products, reached Mumbai to celebrate International Women's Day and spend some time with young students on Friday.
Later, he was seen spending time with kids who used the newly-launched Google's reading tutor app "Bolo".
In Mumbai today and happy to celebrate #IWD2019 with the India chapter of Women@Google at their “I Am Remarkable” event. Thank you for inspiring me with your stories about the experiences, challenges and triumphs of being women in tech. pic.twitter.com/0W8eXVFk3c
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">In Mumbai today and happy to celebrate #IWD2019 with the India chapter of Women@Google at their “I Am Remarkable” event. Thank you for inspiring me with your stories about the experiences, challenges and triumphs of being women in tech. pic.twitter.com/0W8eXVFk3c
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019In Mumbai today and happy to celebrate #IWD2019 with the India chapter of Women@Google at their “I Am Remarkable” event. Thank you for inspiring me with your stories about the experiences, challenges and triumphs of being women in tech. pic.twitter.com/0W8eXVFk3c
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019
"Earlier this week, we launched #Bolo in India: a reading tutor app powered by #GoogleAI text-to-speech & speech recognition.
"Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using 'Bolo', excited for all the great books they'll discover!," Pichai further tweeted.
Earlier this week, we launched #Bolo in India: a reading tutor app powered by #GoogleAI text-to-speech & speech recognition. Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using Bolo, excited for all the great books they’ll discover! https://t.co/HVwZe4SAMk pic.twitter.com/H6vVYD8SNV
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Earlier this week, we launched #Bolo in India: a reading tutor app powered by #GoogleAI text-to-speech & speech recognition. Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using Bolo, excited for all the great books they’ll discover! https://t.co/HVwZe4SAMk pic.twitter.com/H6vVYD8SNV
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019Earlier this week, we launched #Bolo in India: a reading tutor app powered by #GoogleAI text-to-speech & speech recognition. Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using Bolo, excited for all the great books they’ll discover! https://t.co/HVwZe4SAMk pic.twitter.com/H6vVYD8SNV
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) March 8, 2019
Launched on March 5, parents can download the free app to help primary grade children improve their Hindi and English-reading skills.
All the reading material on the app is free and the initial catalogue from Storyweaver.org.in includes 50 stories in Hindi and 40 in English.
Google piloted "Bolo" with over 900 children in 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh with the help of ASER Centre, a research and assessment unit of Pratham Education Foundation.
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