The Highlights:
1. An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language platform designed to help non-native English learners improve their speech and pronunciation via short, app-based lessons. 2. ELSA has raised about $12 million in investments and hit around 11 million users worldwide. 3. User numbers surge “three-to-four times” on a monthly basis, ever since the pandemic.
The coronavirus has sparked a revolution in education, pushing schools and institutions online and driving new demand for e-learning apps. One among them is ELSA, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language platform designed to help non-native English learners improve their speech and pronunciation via short, app-based lessons.
Under the pandemic, ELSA — which uses machine learning to train spoken English specifically — has hit around 11 million users and tapped new markets as international lockdowns have prompted a new need for tech-based learning solutions.
But when Vietnamese entrepreneur Vu Van founded the company in 2015, it was out of a whole different necessity.
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