BookBox, a social enterprise located in Pondicherry, India has created ‘AniBooks’, animated stories for children with the narration appearing on-screen as Same Language Subtitles (SLS).
[2] Every word is highlighted at the exact timing with the audio narration, thus strengthening reading skills, automatically and subconsciously.
[5] The business was born in 2004 from a student-driven competition, Social e-Challenge, at Stanford University.
[6] SLS’ pedagogical sound and proven technique has won many international awards.
[7] Their non-profit partner, PlanetRead, created by Brij Kothari, has also been widely implemented on film song based TV programs in India.