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]
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]
Languages
BookBox offers books in the following languages:[9]
