Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a reading engine for enhanced and adaptive narratives are provided herein. In an example, a system may include instructions to receive, from a first client device, an indication to start a narrative and generate, by a reading engine, a first chapter of the narrative based on the first client device. The reading engine may generate the first chapter to include a first set of challenge words. The reading engine monitors a reading of the first chapter by the first client device and determines one or more low fluency words based on the reading by the first client device. The reading engine may also provide narrative options for continuing the narrative present in the first chapter. Responsive to receiving a selection of a first narrative option the reading engine may generate a second chapter of the narrative based on the first narrative option.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein that improve the instruction of prosody in the context of software applications and services. In various implementations, a service analyzes an audio recording of a user reading text aloud to determine the prosody of the reading. The service provides data to an application indicative the prosody, as well as a reference prosody for the text. The application may then display of a visualization of a comparison of the user prosody for the text to the reference prosody for the text for consumption by users, e.g., a teacher or the reader.

Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.

Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.