Tale Reader is available at: https://api.comprehensiongame.com/tale-reader/
Character Selection
When you open Tale Reader, you are prompted to select a character. You may select any of the characters in the list. Character selection’s purpose is to allow multiple users to each have their own progress on the same device.
Stories
To start listening to a story, choose a story of your choice from the list of stories on the home page.
To see more details about a story, press the question mark in the story’s card.
Listening to a story
Once you have selected a story, you have the following options available to you.
Play/Pause
Press the play/pause button to toggle between play and paused states.
Seek Forward/Backward
Press the arrows to the right or left to seek forward or backward, respectively.
Seek to word
Press a word of the story to seek that moment in the story.
Adjust volume
Press the speaker button to open a slider for volume adjustment.
Adjust playback speed
Press the playback speed button to open a dropdown, where you may choose a slower or faster playback speed.
Searching and sorting stories
You may search
or sort
The stories to make it easier to find what you want.
Managing locally saved stories
Stories that you open are saved locally to your device’s memory so that they can be accessed even without an Internet connection. Locally saved stories have a checkmark in their story card. You may remove a story from your device’s local memory by pressing the checkmark and choosing “Remove” in the confirmation window. Conversely, you may save a story locally by pressing the downward arrow that is present in the cards of stories that aren’t saved locally.
Tasks
You may access Tale Reader’s tasks via the Tasks tab (an icon of a puzzle piece) on the home page. Their list works like that of the stories.
In connection tasks, the general goal is to form the right connections between two given sets of images and/or texts. Some tasks might provide more detailed instructions, which are accessible via the “Help” button, and/or audio hints, which can be listened to by pressing the speaker icons.
Settings
You may access Tale Reader’s settings via the cog button. In the settings, you may, e.g., change the app’s language or adjust the coloring of the story view’s text.
Data collection
Tale Reader collects anonymous data by assigning a unique identifier for each device/browser/character combination. This means that if a device is shared by multiple users, each of those users should only use the character of their own on that device in order to ensure that a unique identifier is associated with only one person’s data. If a user uses Tale Reader on multiple devices and there is a need to track all of that user’s data then the unique identifiers should be kept track of manually, i.e. they need to be noted down, e.g., in a spreadsheet so that we know which unique identifiers’ data should be combined to form the complete data set of the user.
The currently active unique identifier can be seen at the bottom of the Tale Reader’s settings view. Pressing the identifier copies it to the device’s clipboard.
The collected data can be inspected at: https://api.comprehensiongame.com/api/tale-reader/statistics