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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.[3] BookBox has their videos on their YouTube channel,[4] with over 45 stories in 40 languages.[5] The business was born in 2004 from a student-driven competition, Social e-Challenge, at Stanford University.[6]
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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.[8]
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Languages
BookBox offers books in the following languages:[9]
- Arabic
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Bhili
- Catalan
- Chatino
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (US and UK)
- Esperanto
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kotava
- Kutchi
- Lidepla
- Mandarin
- Marathi
- Odia
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sanskrit
- Santali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Turkish
- Urdu
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