Novel Effect Blog

Novel Effect receives District Administration’s 2023 Top EdTech Product of the Year Award!

The Novel Effect app for Chromebook opens the doors for teachers, parents, and children to experience read-aloud magic in millions of schools and homes around the world.

Novel Effect will be used in Atlanta Public Schools’ elementary and middle school classrooms by more than 3,000 teachers and librarians with over 28,000 students in order to bolster student reading engagement and make read-alouds more fun.

Novel Effect, the award-winning app that adds interactive music and sound effects as you read aloud from a children’s book, has added the 2022 American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning to its esteemed collection of awards and recognition.

Novel Effect, creator of the award-winning, patented app that follows along with interactive music. sound effects, and character voices as you read a story book to a child, announces that Bahar Wadia has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer and its second leadership team member outside of the founders. As COO, Wadia will bring the discipline to scale Novel Effect.

Seattle, WA – Novel Effect, creator of the award-winning, patented app that adds voice-driven, interactive music and sound effects as you read a story book to a child, announces that Scott Rockfeld has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer and its first leadership team member outside of the founders. As CMO, Rockfeld will lead the company’s marketing efforts to accelerate revenue growth and users, and create passionate fans out of the growing base of customers.

Hollywood, CA and Seattle, WA – The Jim Henson Company, renowned leader in family entertainment, and
Novel Effect, innovators in voice driven storytelling, today announced a new partnership to bring favorite titles from Jim Henson’s beloved library of IPs to Novel Effect’s voice-driven storytelling platform. Stories will be available in the free Novel Effect mobile app at the beginning of December 2020.

Seattle, WA — ​Matt and Melissa Hammersley may start and end each day as parents, but they spend the rest of their time shaking up the world of voice technology. This week, their immersive storytelling start-up, NovelEffect, is showcasing a fresh approach to streaming videos: voice interactions that control and influence the story.

Seattle, WA — Novel Effect, the groundbreaking voice-driven entertainment company, announced today the release of a new Spanish-language feature set on their Novel Effect: Read Aloud Books app. This release brings their patented reading platform, which plays background
music and sound effects synced to a storyteller’s voice as a book is read aloud, to millions of native Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language.

Vancouver and Seattle, WA — Slumberkins and Novel Effect today announced a co-development relationship to create voice-driven soundscapes that will support early
childhood social-emotional learning beginning with the upcoming picture book release of The Feels.