Jumpstart Reading With Karaoke Review

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(More customer reviews)I was amazed first at the sound quality of the songs on this software package - there were two dozen songs, in addition to the general background music and sound effects, and they were all very catchy and fun songs.I'm still humming the Reading with Karaoke version of the A-B-C song, which has an innovative second verse that introduces the sounds (rather than just the letter names) that many of the letters make.

The graphics are very sophisticated and well done - this is like watching a television-quality animation programme, which is what is often needed to catch the attention of the target audience for this software (4 - 7 year old children).However, this can be presented to the children as television with a difference - a child will enter his or her name into the computer, and Val, the host cat, will interact directly with the child.

Thanks to the use of the microphone and more sophisticated analysis software, the interactivity becomes very personal, as the child speaks words into the microphone, and the computer then gives feedback.This feedback even incorporates the child's own voice repeated back.The Karaoke portion is done in a caf