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Overview
VoLT - Vocabulary Learning Techniques is an innovative approach to strengthen and hone English vocabulary using an easy but effective method based on association of memory. It is developed by ‘Edutainment Spearheads,' an Educational technology company founded in 2016 by Abhishek Jain with a goal of providing an ingenious learning experience. VoLT offers a unique way of acquiring a clear grasp of a word's meaning as well as understanding the word's association with day to day life.

It is an in e-learning platform which uses the fundamental aspect of psychology that is association of the word with anecdotes thus recreating an association with a past memory. In psychology, memory is a storehouse of reception, when this reception is associated with a past memory as an identification bookmark; the former reception stays as a long term memory. Volt uses this very idea by associating challenging English words with certain known as well as interesting deals, such as colored pictures, funny stories, gifs, videos & news articles which enhance retention and enables the reader to retain the word as in the form of long-term memory with a clear understanding of its meaning.

It offers learning not only through a mobile app, textbook & YouTube Channel and many more things that VoLT aims to provide accessible to distinct and varied users.

Since its launch, VoLT Android App has seen over 300,000 downloads, registering monthly growth of close to 125% with over 20 million words learned to date.

Services and Offerings

 * Mobile App: It provides a bank of more than 5000 high-frequency words that is ever-growing with new words added daily. A mix of learning & testing augmented with gifs, videos, and motivational posters provides an immersive learning experience. In a vast digital sphere, the app offers a quick and convenient platform to learn.


 * YouTube Channel: It provides short and interesting videos to learn vocabulary.


 * Textbooks: - It provides a high and effective visual imagery associated with various English words excellently designed for VoLT's unique learning material to promote vocabulary among students. It also comes with an online leaderboard to track students learning performance.

History
VoLT is a brainchild of Abhishek Jain who hails from Sunam, a small town in Punjab. First published in the form of a book with the same title, VoLT sold over 50,000 copies, after whose success; the VoLT app was launched in January 2016.

As a student in Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Abhishek was always at par with his peers, but when it came to English vocabulary and speaking, he had a tough time. He tried various methods to learn the language knowing the importance of it in different competitive fields. During his engineering days, he had Psychology as a minor subject, from where he gained the knowledge of memory retention and idea of association. He thus then used this very idea of learning new words started writing new forms, ideas, techniques in a journal and slowly this idea was able to enhance his own vocabulary and helped him regain confidence in the English language. While that time he was in contact with a head of leading publishing house, who was impressed by reading the journal and wanted the book to reach a larger public medium. They didn't reach a conclusion, and the deal was off the shelf. But still, with much greater dedication, Jain launched his own publishing house under the name 'RR Publication' in a motive to spread the knowledge to help other people who had difficulties in the language. The initial phase was difficult, but gradually the book got an overwhelming response. It was launched as VoLT - Vocabulary Learning Technique in 2013. More than 50,000 books got sold ; it was also included in top 10 vocabulary book on Flipkart and Amazon.

After the success of the book in retail and e-commerce platform, he then decided to take this idea to a larger medium through smartphone apps. After seeing the demand from various competitive exam aspirants such as of CAT, SSC, IAS, GRE & BANK PO, Jain quit his job as an IIT faculty in Sinhals, Mumbai in August 2016 and went on to set up 'Edutainment Spearheads' to provide innovative & engaging learning experience to students. With that motive in mind, he launched the VoLT app in January 2016. VoLT started with a small team, but since then it is now growing and developing new techniques and materials in various segments of education.

Recently Edutainment Spearheads raised a seed funding from YMS Mobitech, a tech-based distribution company.

VoLT is currently working on Optical Character Recognition, Voice Recognition along with Artificial Intelligence to provide a superlative experience to its users. It is also working on developing flashcards, calendars, games & magazines to augment vocabulary learning for its offline users.