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Mitrupal First Look

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Talk, listen, learn, together.

A private preview of Mitrupal, for longtime Jax Party families.

Mitrupal is made by Applaya, Jax Party’s sister company and a local technology company right here in your community. It assists children aged 3 to 8 with learning, under a parent’s supervision and control. Through a small speaker, friendly characters read stories, play counting, letter and word games, go on short exploring adventures (Explore & Learn), and join in during homework time. We’re inviting longtime Jax Party families to try it at home for about three weeks, at no cost. There is nothing to buy, now or later. We have a small number of Mitrupal boxes, so we start with a few families at a time.

Parents stay in control: you choose the settings, and you can follow the conversation live on your phone.

How First Look works:

  1. Answer a few short questions (about 5 minutes).
  2. We read every answer ourselves and get back to every family within two weeks, by phone or email.
  3. Before anything is set up, you get a full guide to Mitrupal and a short participation agreement.
  4. A trusted representative of Jax Party sets it up in your home in person. Your child uses it with you nearby, and you tell us honestly what worked and what didn’t.

Built with care for kids and parents, from the setup in your home to every word the character says. Every reply is checked before your child hears it. There’s no camera, and we never record your child (their voice is only turned into text, and the audio isn’t kept). You can follow the conversation live on your phone, and your child’s conversations are never used to train AI. Your family’s settings and activity history are stored on the Mitrupal box in your home, not in the cloud. To understand and answer your child, Mitrupal uses AI from Microsoft Cloud, our trusted cloud partner, and only what each conversation needs goes there. For ages 3 and up, supervised by a parent or other adult.

During First Look, Mitrupal works only in your home: we set it up on your home Wi-Fi, and sessions won’t start anywhere else. Mitrupal isn’t always listening. There’s no wake word, and nothing listens until a session starts. During a session it listens whenever the character isn’t speaking, and when a session ends, listening stops before the goodbye. It can’t tell voices apart, so it also hears anyone talking nearby, like a brother or sister, and may answer them. Please keep that in mind when others are around. Nobody can connect to the Mitrupal box from outside your home unless you allow it: if something needs fixing, we may ask you to turn on a short support visit from the parent page, and you’ll see when we’re connected. The parent page only opens on a phone that’s on your home Wi-Fi. During a session the box connects to Microsoft, our cloud partner, over the internet, and it sends no analytics or crash reports anywhere.

There are no right or wrong answers: we just want to get to know your family. Please don’t include your children’s names.

Applaya Technologies Inc uses your answers only to choose and schedule First Look families and to get in touch with you about First Look. We don’t share them, and we delete them when First Look ends. This survey is for Jax Party families who received our email, so please don’t forward or post the link.

    About your family

    1. Your name *

    3. Your mobile phone *

    4. Your city *

    5. Best time to call you *

    6. Ages of the children living at home *

    7. Your youngest child aged 3 to 8 is in: *

    8. How easily do adults outside your family understand your child when they talk? *
    There's no right answer. Mitrupal's listening can find some young voices harder to understand than others, so this helps us try it with many different children, and every answer is welcome. This isn't a speech check, and Mitrupal isn't speech therapy.

    Your child's day

    9. How often does someone read with your child or tell them stories? *

    10. Which of these does your child already enjoy? Choose all that apply. *

    11. Does your child like to talk with characters, like puppets, stuffed animals or characters from stories? *

    12. Where does your child usually do quiet activities, like reading or homework? *

    13. Tell us about something your child enjoyed learning or talking about this week. *
    A sentence or two is plenty. No names needed.

    14. On a typical weekday, how much screen time does your child have? *

    15. What would you most like more of in your child's day? Pick up to 3, in order of importance. *

    Most important

    Second

    Third

    Your other answer:

    About Mitrupal

    Mitrupal is a learning helper you use together with your child. Friendly characters read stories, play counting, letter, word and rhyming games, go on short exploring adventures, and join in during homework time. Your child talks, and the character listens and answers. There's no screen to watch: just listening, talking and taking turns. There are several characters to choose from, and you can create your own on the parent page. Each character tells your child it's an AI helper, and we ask parents to explain, in their own words, that AI is make-believe. During First Look, we'd like to hear what you notice. For ages 3 and up, supervised by a parent or other adult.

    16. What would you hope Mitrupal adds to your child's day? *

    Before you answer: we built Mitrupal for children from the start. The AI never answers your child on its own: every reply goes through our own safety checks before the character says it, with extra care on sensitive topics. Microsoft's built-in safety filters are on as well. There's no camera, and we never record your child: their voice goes to Microsoft, our cloud partner,only to be turned into text, and the audio isn't kept. You can follow the conversation live on your phone. Your child's conversations are never used to train AI. The Mitrupal box keeps a few records, like a safety log, for up to 30 days; after First Look we wipe the box and delete our copy of the safety log within 30 days. Microsoft may keep the text of the conversation for up to 30 days, only to check for misuse. The family guide explains exactly what's kept and where.

    17. Mitrupal's characters use AI to understand your child and talk back. How comfortable are you with that? *
    Every reply goes through multiple levels of safety checks before the character says it.

    Not at allVery comfortable

    18. What questions or worries do you have, if any? *

    19. Before your child uses Mitrupal, what would you want to do? *

    The three weeks

    Here's what First Look asks of a family: a video call of up to an hour, then a visit of about an hour to set it up at your home; a grown-up tries Mitrupal first and uses it together with the child the first few times; about three normal weeks of use at home, with a short text from us once a week; we pick everything up at the end and ask a few questions.

    20. Could you do this? *

    21. When would three weeks work? *

    22. Could anything in those weeks make it hard? *

    23. In the next two months, are you planning any of these? (tick all that apply) *
    Mitrupal is set up on your home Wi-Fi, so a change like this during the three weeks would mean setting it up again. Knowing now helps us plan around it.

    24. Who provides your home Wi-Fi? *
    Mitrupal works on your home Wi-Fi. Some building or community networks don't let new devices connect the usual way, so this helps us check before the setup visit.

    25. How would you like to check in with us? *

    26. What would make First Look worth it for you? *

    27. Anything else we should know?

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