30 Mar
5 Calls to Action to Protect Kids Voice Data Privacy
These are incredibly exciting times for the voice tech industry. However, against the backdrop of consumer sentiment, strict regulation and increased enforcement activities, important legal and technology-driven action is needed to make sure that voice technology does not threaten kids’ rights. Here are 5 calls to action for our voice industry: Deliver transparency on how […]
30 Mar
We Need to Talk About Kids Voice Data Privacy
Consumers – and some of our colleagues in voice industry – are only now waking up to the issues around kids and voice data. On Saturday, we published this guest post in Voicebot explaining why protecting kids’ voice data is so important. We lay out the background to legislation like GDPR and COPPA, and call […]
25 Mar
Kids using tech built for adults
“Every consumer-facing product and service is now a kids and family company” says Kate O’Loughlin of SuperAwesome. This message should be a wake up call for companies – and for parents – everywhere. Kids will have more screen time over the next few months than in their wildest dreams, but will their personally identifiable data […]
20 Mar
We’re All Here
In these tumultuous times, the team here at SoapBox Labs wants to wish health and safety to everyone in our Irish and international community. While the whole team is working remotely, it remains business as usual for us. We’re here to listen and can move quickly to support your needs for voice tech for kids […]
02 Mar
Announcing SoapBox Fluency
Pioneering Developer of Voice Technology for Children Now Enables Fluency Assessment for the Classroom First-of-a-kind technology allows educators to understand and evaluate the development of critical speech and reading comprehension skills for young readers DUBLIN, IRELAND (March 3rd, 2020) – SoapBox Labs, developer of safe and secure voice technology for kids, today announced the release […]
25 Feb
A Voice for Equity
How does our voice technology for kids promote equity in the classroom? We’ll be sharing some big news on this topic next week. Meantime, here’s a teaser. SoapBox Labs voice tech for kids promotes equity in a couple of key ways: By giving kids a voice, to practice reading out loud and be understood accurately. […]
18 Feb
From Cusp to Mainstream
They say we’re “on the cusp” of a big new trend – voice technology in classrooms. Here’s how we know they’re right: Education companies are piloting voice tech: SoapBox Labs is currently engaged in multiple pilots with edtech companies who want to integrate our voice technology into their assessment and practice tools, apps and curriculum […]
11 Feb
Why Build for Kids.
Voicebot’s Eric Schwartz wrote an interesting article last week about new research that shows how kids tend to trust what they hear from their parents, teachers and peers more than they trust information served up by voice assistants. The research hypothesized that the “disembodied voice” element of an Alexa or Siri experience feeds into this […]
07 Feb
Telling Europe’s AI Innovation Story
For the next week, the SoapBox Labs story will be a feature TV broadcast into millions of homes across Europe and beyond. The Euronews team chose SoapBox Labs to tell Europe’s AI innovation story and came to Dublin last week to interview CEO and Founder Patricia Scanlon. Watch the show here – buff.ly/2H60OiK
06 Feb
Why Join SoapBox Labs?
So, apart from working with the two of you, what’s so great about working for SoapBox Labs? Director of Engineering Robert O’Regan and Director of Speech Tech Dr. Amelia Kelly shared 5 (other) big reasons why talented engineers should check out open roles at SoapBox Labs: 1. It’s a fast paced development environment so while […]
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