The site's AI assistant now answers in the reader's chosen language and can speak its replies with a natural voice, while a new guided tour awards XP toward the public leaderboard.
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The Curator today shipped three accessibility and onboarding upgrades: multilingual chat, spoken answers using a natural voice engine, and a gamified guided tour that awards points toward the public leaderboard.
Chat follows the reader's language
Switching the site language now switches the assistant too. Welcome copy, suggested prompts and the assistant's replies all follow the selection, on the homepage and on the full chat page. Previously the interface translated but the conversation stayed in English.
Spoken answers
Replies can be read aloud with a natural-sounding voice rather than a flat system voice, with playback controls on each message. Voice is optional, off by default, and never autoplays.
A guided tour worth points
The new How to Use walkthrough replaces a static help page with a short sequence of steps that each unlock a real part of the site — asking the assistant a question, opening an encyclopedia entry, following a thread through The Salon. Each completed step awards XP, and the walkthrough documents exactly how leaderboard scoring is calculated.
Why this matters for accessibility
Language selection and spoken answers together make the library usable for readers who do not read English comfortably or who prefer to listen. Both are standard controls, not paid add-ons.
Availability
All three features are live on The Curator. Multilingual chat and the guided tour work without an account; extended chat use requires a free sign-up.
About The Curator
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