Chrysalis Literacy
A voice-driven phonics tool for children who haven't connected yet — making language visceral, visual, and kinetically flowing.
Honest first
Gates & Bleats is built on serious research — Goswami's amplitude envelope, Barrett's prediction theory, LiPS articulatory phonics, Structured Word Inquiry. The pedagogy is sound. The technology works.
What it isn't yet: a fully WCAG AAA certified product. The accessibility foundations are in place — keyboard navigation, eye gaze dwell, reduced motion, sensitivity controls. Full certification is the next build, once we know teachers and families want this.
This demo is a test. We want to know if voice-driven, visually embodied phonics — built for linguistic justice, every dialect, every body — is something your students need. If the answer is yes, we build the full version together.
Built for
Children who can decode in isolation but lose the thread the moment sounds need to flow together.
Prosodic entrainment — not phoneme drilling. The hill is the amplitude envelope. The body learns first.
Button mode and eye gaze mode. Same lesson, same hill, same dignity. No voice required.
Teacher records each word in their own voice. Students hear their own accent — not a robot's idea of English.
What it does
Amplitude drives the runner in real time. The child's voice climbs the hill. The gates open when the sound flows.
Single tap or 800ms dwell. Auto-animation plays the word. Luna explains the hill's shape.
Teacher reads first — their recording becomes the model. Student mirrors. Both recordings reviewable.
Two strikes then the gate opens. No failure state ever shown to the child. The barn door opens for everyone.
Record all 11 words once before the session. Persists locally. Every future session uses your voice.
Complete all words including MON and Luna the mage appears — introducing schwa and vowel flexibility.
Live demo
Choose a mode. Try voice, button, or together. This is the real game — v35, running in your browser. Allow microphone access if you want to try voice mode.
Microphone: only used during gameplay, never stored or sent anywhere without your action. · No account needed. · Works on phone and desktop.
"The container was always wrong.
The voice was never the problem."
— Chrysalis Literacy
Register interest
No commitment. No spam. Just your name and what brings you here. If enough teachers and families say yes, we build the full version — WCAG AAA certified, cloud-backed, ready for your classroom.
Your response has been received. Amanda will be in touch — and you'll hear when the full version is ready.