Amira Learning
AI reading tutor that listens to a child read aloud
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What it does
What the AI actually does — Genuine speech-recognition AI — Amira listens to a child read aloud, detects mispronunciations and decoding errors in real time, and coaches fluency. Built on ~20 years of Carnegie Mellon (Project LISTEN) research.
Why it was built — Give every young child a one-on-one reading tutor that listens as they read aloud — at classroom scale.
Who built it
- Company
- Amira Learning
- Founders
- Mark Angel · Pete Jung
- HQ / origin
- California, USA (technology rooted in Carnegie Mellon reading research)
- Founded
- 2017
- Model
- B2B / B2G
- Ownership
- Merged with Istation (2024)
- Languages
- English · Spanish
We record durable facts only — no funding-raised or user-count figures. Unverified fields are marked [TBD] rather than guessed.
Where it sits
Amira Learning is on the EdTech AI 100 map, in early years & literacy, built in United States.