Case Study: Penn Foster Group boosts course completions with ReadSpeaker TTS

Penn Foster Group boosts course completions by 54% with ReadSpeaker

Penn Foster Group, an online education provider with a mission to make learning accessible, sought new resources to support its diverse student population. These learners, many balancing education with work and family, needed flexible tools to help them succeed. To address this challenge, they partnered with vendor ReadSpeaker to integrate text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities into their D2L Brightspace platform.

The solution involved implementing ReadSpeaker's webReader and docReader, which provided lifelike TTS for online and offline use. This allowed students to listen to course materials, customizing the experience to their needs. The results were significant, with ReadSpeaker helping to boost 30-day course completion rates by 54% and reduce the average time to complete the first exam. A quarter of learners also reported that the speech synthesis was particularly helpful during tests.

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