Panchtantra for kids: Start-up launches voice-tech enabled Panchantra series on Covid-19 preparedness for kids

The Panchtantra interactive tales embrace self-hygiene practices which can be medically-prescribed together with washing fingers periodically, utilizing hand sanitisers and disinfectants, sporting masks, together with psychological and emotional well-being.

HiVoco, the voice-tech schooling & studying app, has launched what it says is the world’s first voice-interactive tales collection for kids, referred to as the Panchtantra Interactive. The Panchtantra tales—an historical Indian assortment of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, organized inside a body story—can be utilized by HiVoco for educating children about Covid-19-appropriate behaviour in a mixture of kid psychology and pandemic science.

“With the third wave of the pandemic anticipated to have an effect on children as much as 15 years’ outdated, the interactive tales will information youthful children to embrace good hygiene habits in a mission-critical manner by reassuring them, educating them, and giving them a constructive position within the family,” HiVoco mentioned.

The Panchtantra interactive tales embrace self-hygiene practices which can be medically-prescribed together with washing fingers periodically, utilizing hand sanitisers and disinfectants, sporting masks, together with psychological and emotional well-being. “We’re additionally specializing in making a financial institution of standard tales from mythology, historical past and science to construct a values-based studying,” HiVoco added.

HiVoco is a two-way audio interactive platform the place academics and story-tellers present interactive content material and quizzes to kids of 4-10 years of age. HiVoco (Voco stands for Voice Companion) is a platform the place college students be taught from over 5,000 questions, classes and tales. The app makes use of a number of voice-tech instruments, and the start-up goals to have not less than 80% of the content material out there free of charge use all through in order that kids can entry high-quality content material and conversational studying.

HiVoco founder Pritesh Chothani mentioned that early schooling is all about conversations. “The extra they discuss, pay attention and reply to those conversations, the extra they be taught. That’s the core precept behind HiVoco. We would like the most effective academics and storytellers to have interaction kids in a one-to-one dialog and in that designate essentially the most complicated stuff. With Panchatantra Interactive, we wish the youngsters to be on the centre of the tales,” he mentioned. “We would like them to not solely be taught but additionally take choices contained in the story about Covid-19 acceptable behaviour.”