Bedtimes Stories connect incarcerated parents and their children through the power of reading. The program simulates for the child the experience of reading together with their separated parent to nurture bonds and improve literacy. 

 

How it works: Within the jail, the inmate makes an audio recording of themselves reading a children’s book. That recording is uploaded to the Bedtime Stories cloud server.  Outside the jail at home, the child can access the secure recording with the Bedtime Stories app to hear their parent read a book for them just as if they are side by side.

 

When the child hovers the AR-enabled app over the pages of the book’s physical copy, the parent’s voice comes to life reading the book, page by page through image recognition. In addition, the parent can read special messages for their child, further simulating the read-together experience.