The Reading Tutor has been used daily by hundreds of children in field tests at schools in the United States, Canada, Ghana, and India.
Thousands of hours of usage logged at multiple levels of detail, including millions of words read aloud, have been stored in a database that has been mined to improve the Tutor's interactions with students.
[1] Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor is now being transformed into "RoboTutor" by Carnegie Mellon’s team competing in the Global Learning XPRIZE.
RoboTutor is an integrated collection of intelligent tutors and educational games implemented on an Android tablet, and is now being field-tested in Tanzania.
Project LISTEN was led by (now Emeritus) Professor David 'Jack' Mostow,[3] who currently leads Carnegie Mellon's "RoboTutor" team in the Global Learning XPRIZE competition.
As part of the research and testing, Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor has been used with positive results by hundreds of children in the United States, Canada, and other countries.
[9] Project Listen fits well into Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Initiative, whose goal is to use learning science research to improve educational practice.
As noted in the History of the Simon Initiative, "The National Science Foundation included Project LISTEN’s speech recognition system as one of its top 50 innovations from 1950-2000.