Made with a little help.

Pip, the acorn character, is original AI-generated artwork created for Playful Acorn with OpenAI image generation.

Interface icons are from Lucide, used under the ISC license. Picture clues use your device’s built-in emoji artwork. Spoken prompts are AI-generated narration, produced locally using the Kokoro-82M v1.0 model (Apache 2.0), the af_heart voice, and kokoro-onnx (MIT). The same prepared audio files are used on every device.

Learning references

Our parent guidance distinguishes listening to sounds from matching sounds to letters. For more detailed explanations, visit Reading Rockets and the Florida Center for Reading Research.

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