And he added that Labour needed "to be a different type of political party" in order to better engage with younger people, who he believed were "entering politics in a different way" and that it needs to have clearer policies on areas like welfare and immigration.
It also represented a broader goal of Nuance as a speech recognition company: creating personal dictionaries that better understand what we say and type to a machine, be it a smartphone, car or laptop.
The education secretary wants to widen access to the type of individualised teaching which better-off children might already be receiving from private tutors.