AI at Freadom Edu

Build the Future of Learning with AI

Calling all college innovators, coders, and creators!

Join the first-ever Freadom AI Hackathon and build AI-powered solutions to improve how kids learn English. Whether it's speech recognition, storytelling, fluency evaluation, or gamified learning, your ideas could shape the next big thing in EdTech!

What’s at Stake:

• Prize Money: ₹20,000
  
• Certificates for all participants

Description of the Product

Company Website of Freadom Edu : https://www.getfreadom.com/

Freadom is a leading English reading app designed for children from Nursery to Grade 8, helping them fall in love with reading and build lifelong literacy skills. Trusted by parents and schools across India, Freadom offers a personalized reading journey that adapts to each child’s age, level, and learning pace.

The app features a rich and diverse library of storybooks, audiobooks, videobooks, news articles, vocabulary games, fluency activities, and quizzes, making reading fun and engaging. Every interaction strengthens core literacy skills like phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and fluency.

Freadom provides:

• 10,000+ age-appropriate stories
  
• Audio and video formats for multisensory learning
  
• Skill-based progress tracking
  
• Fun quizzes and activities
  
• Dashboards for parents and teachers to track growth
  
• Multicultural and inclusive content
  
• Personalized recommendations based on reading habits
  

Freadom is aligned with NEP and global literacy standards, making it ideal for home use and classroom integration. It encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and a love for language in every child—no matter where they start from.

With Freadom, reading becomes a joyful habit, not a task. Because reading isn't just a skill—it’s a superpower! 

Theme

• Open Track: Surprise us with some amazing AI features that can be integrated into Freadom for kids & English language learning!

As an example please find some topic mentioned below and you are most welcome to choose any of our own choice based on the product understanding.

Intelligent Speech Recognition and Fluency Assessment

• Objective: Enhance the current speech recognition feature using AI to provide real-time feedback on pronunciation, intonation, and reading pace.
  
• Challenge: How can AI be integrated to assess children’s fluency, correct errors, and give constructive suggestions, especially for young learners?
  

AI-Based Text Summarization for Comprehension

• Objective: Build an AI tool that can summarize stories, comprehension passages, and news articles in simpler terms to aid comprehension and retention for younger readers.
  
• Challenge: Can AI generate simplified summaries of passages or stories based on the child’s reading level?
  

Dynamic Quiz Generation Using AI

• Objective: Use AI to generate quizzes that adapt to the child’s reading level and learning pace, based on their engagement with the stories.
  
• Challenge: How can AI dynamically create quiz questions (multiple choice, true/false, etc.) based on the content of the story the child is reading?
  

Emotion Recognition in Speech and Text

• Objective: Integrate emotion recognition to assess the tone of the child’s reading (e.g., excitement, hesitation) and provide feedback for improvement.
  
• Challenge: How can AI determine if the child’s reading reflects understanding or emotion (e.g., confusion or excitement)?
  

Real-time Grammar and Syntax Correction

• Objective: Enhance your app's grammar checking abilities by using AI to assess and correct grammar and syntax errors while children read aloud or type responses.
  
• Challenge: How can AI offer real-time grammar correction during reading and provide context-based suggestions for improvement?
  

AI-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Pathways

• Objective: Create an AI-driven learning path that adapts based on individual student progress, weaknesses, and strengths, ensuring a tailored educational journey.
  
• Challenge: How can AI adapt the curriculum or reading schedule to focus on skills where the child needs the most improvement?
  

AI-Powered Engagement & Gamification

• Objective: Introduce AI to gamify the reading experience, where children earn rewards based on their reading, quiz performance, and fluency.
  
• Challenge: Can AI design personalized, engaging challenges or missions based on reading data to motivate students to read more?

AI for Student Progress Analytics and Insights

• Objective: Leverage AI to provide deep insights into student progress, identifying areas for improvement, and offering actionable feedback for both students and teachers.
  
• Challenge: How can AI analyze students' progress across various metrics (fluency, comprehension, quiz performance) and provide teachers with real-time insights?
  

AI for Adaptive Feedback on Audio-Video Stories

• Objective: Enhance the feedback system for audio-video stories by integrating AI that assesses comprehension and engagement, adjusting future content based on user interaction.
  
• Challenge: How can AI track interactions with multimedia content and adapt the experience to better suit the learning pace or preferences?

Voice Interaction with AI Narrators

• Objective: Implement AI-powered narrators that interact with the child based on their voice input, allowing for more immersive storytelling experiences.
  
• Challenge: How can AI interpret and respond to voice commands or questions from the child during an audio or video story to enhance interaction?

AI Story Buddy – Your Smart Writing Companion

AI Story Buddy is an all-in-one interactive writing assistant where children can write original stories and instantly receive personalized, supportive feedback from an AI system designed just for young learners.

What It Does:

• Spelling & Grammar Tracker
  Instantly highlights spelling and grammar mistakes, offering simple corrections and explanations tailored to the child’s grade level.
  
• Creative Writing Guidance
  Gives story-building suggestions (character development, plot direction, vocabulary enhancement) to encourage imaginative writing—without doing the writing for them.
  
• Personalized Rubric Evaluation
  Scores the story using an age-appropriate rubric based on coherence, vocabulary use, structure, and creativity. The rubric is visually engaging (stars, badges, or growth meters).
  
• Emotion & Tone Analyzer
  Detects the mood or emotion in the story (happy, sad, exciting, mysterious) and helps the child reflect on how they conveyed those feelings through words.
  
• Plagiarism & Originality Check
  Gently flags potential copied content and encourages the child to rephrase or add their own ideas while appreciating what they’ve written uniquely.
  

Child-Friendly Output:

• Fun, supportive feedback like:
  
  • “Great use of mystery! Your ending was really exciting!”
    
  • “Oops! Let’s fix these three tiny spelling goof-ups.”
    
  • “Looks like you’ve used a sentence from a popular story. Want to make it your own?”
    
• Rewards like badges (e.g., “Story Sparkler,” “Grammar Star,” “Original Thinker”)
• A simple growth dashboard showing improvement areas over time

Objective:

To support children in becoming confident writers by giving them feedback that is helpful, kind, and meaningful—fueling both skill growth and creativity.

Challenge:

Creating an AI that feels like a mentor—not a judge—while respecting children’s privacy, creativity, and learning pace.

Timeline

• Registrations Open: 3rd May
  
• Hackathon Period: 5th May to 8th May
• Submission Deadline: 10th May
  
• Demo & Results: To be communicated
  

Who Can Participate:

• Students from any tech background (CS, AI/ML, Data, Design)
  
• Teams of 1–4 members or Individual Participant
  
• Open to all colleges in India
  

Tech Stack Suggestions

• Python, Django, React
  
• Whisper, OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenSMILE
  
• Freadom APIs and sample data (shared on Day 1)