AI English Learning App "Terratalk for Educators" for schools, cram schools, and corporations, exceeded 250,000 registrants in the GIGA school concept tailwind

Joys, which develops the English learning app "Terratalk" and the API service "Lingos", will be signed up (the number of teachers+students) of the AI English learning app "Terratalk for Educators" for the company's school and cram school.It has been revealed that the total has exceeded 250,000.The GIGA School Concept, which incorporates advanced technology based on ICT into school education, launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Terratalk was established in October 2014 by the British Japan Meteorological Agency and Sony Yoshiyuki Kakihara.Incubate fund was produced from the Fellow Program, which was operated at the time, and in February 2016, the application "Terratalk" was launched, which provides utterance and pronunciation correction using proprietary pronunciation and utterance analysis engines.So far, 1 in Sea Dround.It has raised about 200 million yen in 500 million yen and a series A round.

Terratalk for Educators is a service that intends to introduce organizational units at schools, cram schools, corporations, etc.The company has accelerated the development plan for schools and corporations since 2018, and has announced that the introduction to 800 organizations has been completed last year.It seems that the cooperation of NEC's education cloud platform "Open Platform for Education" and educational book distribution companies have been successful.

The GIGA School Initiative is an education that fosters fairly optimized creativity by integrated with each terminal for children and high -speed large -capacity communication networks.A concept that will be realized sustently.Not only the terminals, but also networks, cloud, educational applications and content are urgently developed.Terratalk for Educators seems to be recruiting at school here.

Since 2020, elementary schools have been compulsory English education from third graders, but in these classes, ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) may help some of the classes to help pronunciation correction.ALT, which has many foreign native speakers, has become difficult to adopt due to corona, and expectations for Terratalk for Educators have been increasing, as English education, which is independent of Corona, has been required only for ALT.

Terratalk does not substitute ALT, but gives students a speaking opportunity.Speaking of pronunciation feedback, it can be provided cheaper than ALT.As teachers have become required to have new skill sets, IT support has become able to complement it.That's why Terratalk for Educators, which has textbooks, is accepted.(Mr. Kakihara)

Before the new semester in April, the current state is that the local government has been registered as Terratalk for Educators from the local government one after another.If the device spreads to each school due to the GIGA school concept, the student's device holding rate will surpass the penetration rate of the world's smartphone, so it will be easier for Jois to create services for schools as well as joys.Kakihara said that is big.