Duolingoa language learning app with over 500 million users, working on a music app, TechCrunch learned.
The Pittsburgh-based technology company currently has a small team working on a music production and is hire an academic scientist is a “music education specialist who combines both theoretical knowledge of relevant academic research and hands-on teaching experience,” according to a job posting listed on the career site. Duolingo’s career. The company also posted a job offered an extracurricular consultant and freelance music composer, but the company is no longer accepting applications for that position.
The job listing suggests that the app will teach the basics of music theory using popular songs and teachers.
Duolingo has slowly evolved beyond language learning into a number of new ancillary projects that could provide significant revenue streams in the coming years. For example, The Duolingo English Test, born out of a hackathon in 2014, is an online certification exam that tests language proficiency. The company also launched Duolingo ABC during the pandemic, which is a free app focused on English literacy for children ages 3 to 6.
In October 2022, the company announced Duolingo Math in the first expansion of the subject beyond its original roots of language learning and literacy. Free math app and similar to language learning; both require methodical thinking and the ability to apply functions to find answers.
Music is a subject that sits in between pedagogical language, which requires nuance and context, and mathematics, which requires a focus on formulas to give the right answer, or in this case, sound. bar.
Language, math, and music in Duolingo all require basic knowledge. And that’s how Duolingo sets itself apart: It focuses on building blocks, rather than specific mastery, as a way to learn a skill.
Plus, it’s not unfortunate that there seem to be a number of executives who agree with the concept: Duolingo’s chief business officer, Bob Meese, is an investor in Trala, a syndicated technology company. Virtual violin lessons. It was recently raised $8 million in Series A.
So far, the broader vision seems to be resonating. Duolingo more than doubled its paid subscriber base last year, according to its last quarterly update. Total revenue also nearly doubled to $369.5 million for 2022.
It’s not clear how Duolingo’s music app will materialize in the next few months — we don’t know, for example, if it will help people read music, write music, learn an instrument, or all of the above. or not — or is it just a small experiment within an organization known to love a test or 10. TechCrunch has reached out to the company for further comment and will update if we receive a response.
