{"id":14735,"date":"2024-04-05T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1405481"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:55:17","slug":"this-literacy-pen-instantly-teaches-you-to-read-and-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=14735","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018literacy pen\u2019 instantly teaches you to read and write"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span>The World Literacy Foundation and Dutch marketing firm <\/span><span>Media.Monks have teamed up to create a pen designed to help millions of people around the world grappling with illiteracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The device, dubbed Literacy Pen, is compatible with any standard pen or pencil. Users slip the device onto the pen and then speak their desired words into the built-in microphone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>V<\/span><span>oice dictation technology then transcribes these words, letter by letter, onto a digital screen built-in to the device. The user can then copy the words they see onto paper all using the one pen.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"LITERACY PEN\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcdoc=\"\n\n<style>*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}<\/style>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-hynspzVzR8?feature=oembed&amp;autoplay=1&amp;mute=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;theme=light&amp;playsinline=1'><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-hynspzVzR8\/hqdefault.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn-hover.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;opacity:0;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><\/a>&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#8221; referrerpolicy=&#8221;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#8221; allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe device ensures an effective learning experience by focusing on key aspects of literacy development, such as written and visual repetition,\u201d said its makers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\" readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\" readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The &lt;3 of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Its small size is designed to make it accessible for users of all ages and abilities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While <\/span><span>text-to-speech pens \u2014 which use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to read aloud printed text \u2014 are quite common, speech-to-text pens are not.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Finnish Reading Center<\/span><span>, <\/span><span>an NGO <\/span><span>which promotes reading and literacy, one in seven adults worldwide are illiterate. This can stem from a number of factors such as poor access to education, poverty, and language disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The repercussions are profound. Illiteracy makes it much harder for individuals to get employed. In many cases, it perpetuates cycles of poverty.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If the literacy pen can be rolled out en masse to the places that need it most, I can only imagine its impact on people\u2019s lives.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We\u2019ve reached out to the creators and will update this story if\/when we receive a response.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/literacy-pen-tech-read-and-write\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Literacy Foundation and Dutch marketing firm Media.Monks have teamed up to create a pen designed to help millions of people around the world grappling with illiteracy.&nbsp;&nbsp; The device, dubbed Literacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}