RIFFIT text to song technology is revolutionising reading comprehension for people with Dyslexia.

 We live in a world where millions of people fail in their educational activities, largely due to current ‘one size fits all’ methods of learning and communication. RIFFIT provides a game-changing answer to this problem by using a combination of melody and automated text reading to let you “read with your ears”. 

About one in five of us have a lot of difficulty learning to read and are diagnosed with dyslexia. This population generally suffers educationally and is often being left behind from the first grade onwards. It is not surprising that a large proportion of this group drops out of school altogether, but dyslexia is not an indication of low intelligence (Einstein and Walt Disney both struggled with dyslexia). It is an inherited condition which only means that learning to read, spell words, speak and comprehend spoken words is very challenging. 



The socioeconomic impact of dyslexia is enormous. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress report, only a third of our nation’s students can read at grade level. America’s students are entering high school without being able to comprehend text at a level necessary to complete their schoolwork. The situation is just as worrying amongst the adult population. According to US Dept of Education: 54% of US adults – equating to around 130 million people – lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

Over the past few decades, it is has become clear that many of these slow readers are fast thinkers, who are being held back simply because the neuronal pathways which the brain uses to process written and/or spoken words don’t work efficiently. Fortunately, in-depth research has shown that presenting information as a melodic song uses a different neuronal route, bypassing these inefficient speech/text pathways. Using this alternative, musical route to the brain can help a dyslexic to process information better. 

Despite the fantastic prospects musical therapy has to offer, it is rarely accessible or affordable, and this is where RIFFIT comes into its own. We have created the world’s first text-to-song generation platform to facilitate comprehension and recall of written and spoken words. You can instantly hear any text played back to you in the form of a melodic song in the genre, speed, and gender of your choice. At the same time the reader can follow the words on the screen and hence absorb the information more effectively. All these options are available to make your experience as personalized as possible. And, surprisingly, the current release of the RIFFIT app is free to use.

We evaluated RIFFIT song-enabled reading in a scientific study comparing it to silent reading and the results were extremely positive. 45% of the students in the study demonstrated an improvement in comprehension using RIFFIT as compared to silent reading. Within this group:

  • The average number of correct answers to the comprehension questions rose impressively, from 56% to 69%.

  • The students who had the worst comprehension with silent reading were the ones who benefitted most from the RIFFIT app - there was a strong relationship between poor performance when silent reading and big improvements when using RIFFIT. 

  • Three quarters of the students said that RIFFIT helped them to concentrate better.

  • Most of the students found that using RIFFIT technology was a fun activity.

The RIFFIT text-to-song App is free to use and is clearly a promising technology for improving comprehension and concentration in students with dyslexia, especially younger students with poor reading comprehension skills.  Improving concentration and the enjoyment of reading text by translating it into song should reduce barriers to reading and increase dyslexics willingness to learn from, or simply enjoy, written text. 

RIFFIT opens the doors to a new way of learning and communication. Think how exciting it’ll be to pick your music genre, enter any text and listen to your book, or read your newspaper, twitter, or e-mail message, as song. Teachers would be able to reap the benefits of speaking to their students and having them receive the spoken words as song, immediately grabbing attention and attaining improved comprehension. RIFFIT can improve the comprehension of written or spoken text for a wide range of people, especially those with learning impairments like dyslexia and autism.

 

Dr. John Powell (Author of ‘How Music Works’) and Deepak Savadatti (CEO RIFFIT)

https://www.riffitnow.com/

Location: United States

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