Building Read-Along AI: Field Notes from a Small-Model Reading Tutor

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Read-Along AI is an offline-capable reading-practice app for early readers that displays one sentence at a time, lets kids tap words for help, records read-aloud attempts, and provides gentle feedback.
The system fast-accepts “clean” transcripts with exact normalized matches, while close or ambiguous cases are re-checked using a fine-tuned MiniCPM phonetic evaluator to avoid harsh or unreliable feedback.
The project is designed to keep the experience low-stakes and privacy-preserving for families, avoiding sending children’s voices to large hosted AI pipelines.
Built as a Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon demo, the MVP focuses on a tight, end-to-end sentence-reading loop with a deliberately small initial curriculum.
The stated goal is to make reading practice feel like a patient companion beside the story while providing a more developmentally fair evaluation process for young learners.

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