Google offers Nigerian families free AI-powered storytelling
Google claims to have unveiled Storybook, a brand-new AI-powered creative tool in the Gemini app that uses pictures, phone photos, and kid-drawn stories from refrigerator doors to create brief narrated stories.
This was announced in a statement on Friday by Mr. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, the Communication and Public Affairs Manager for Google, West Africa.
According to Kola-Ogunlade, the inauguration gave Nigeria, a nation with a rich and long history of storytelling, a potent new creative weapon.
According to him, the demand for interesting and easily accessible instructional materials is more important than ever because of the young population, which includes about 39 million children under the age of six.
He claims that Storybook’s ability to enable anyone to create customized learning experiences will aid in closing this gap.
“Storybook feels like a logical progression in a nation with such a rich history of transmitting knowledge through storytelling.
It fills a genuine need for parents and teachers searching for new approaches to engage our youngest students.
“Making education interactive and personalized is often the challenge,” he stated.
He asserts that Storybook enables you to put a child at the center of their own educational journey, which is essential for capturing their interest and assisting them in understanding novel ideas.
“Storybook functions as a creative collaborator,” Kola-Ogunlade stated. When a story is described with a picture of a youngster and their favorite toy, a 10-page illustrated story about them is produced.
“You can ask Gemini to make a child’s drawing come to life in a story by uploading it,” he explained.
The Google spokesperson claims that every book has a narrator’s voice and distinctive illustrations from page to page.
“Telling stories is essential to our ability to connect and learn. Giving individuals a straightforward method to write their own stories is what we hoped to see,” he said.
Kola-Ogunlade went on to say that the artificial intelligence was not the fascinating aspect. that was the freedom of expression that made possible.
According to him, a family may recreate a holiday through a new story, or a parent could use his resume to explain his work to his kids.
He claims that it serves as a canvas for the intimate, little moments that form the basis of early education.
Kola-Ogunlade claimed that this gave Nigerian families a new creative outlet, enabling them to create everything from humorous stories for friends and personalized presents for loved ones to instructional tales about the local way of life.
How to Utilize Gemini Storybook
In order to utilize tale, you must first launch your Gemini app and ask the chatbot to create a tale on any subject or idea, according to a Google tutorial video on its website.
“Is it possible for you to create a coloring book-style storybook for my daughters, ages two and four, that explains my career?” —Google illustrated in a website video explanation.
You can use it for free.
