The SoapBox Tech Blog

SoapBox Fluency, our high accuracy reading assessment solution, has been built to support kids and their teachers. The rich and granular…

CLM stands for “custom language model.” Language models are statistical models of language that can predict the next word based on the…

Artificial intelligence systems will reflect the conscious and unconscious biases of their creators and create poor user experiences for…

In this blog, I look at deep learning and how it’s being used at SoapBox Labs to improve our kid-specific speech recognition.

Best practices in voice UX are emerging as the voice technology industry grows and voice use cases expand. As we design voice experiences…

This article examines the value and use of SoapBox Fluency to power remote and automated assessments of kids oral reading fluency.

Intent recognition is the natural language understanding (NLU) task of determining what general goal a user is trying to accomplish (e.g…

Keyword detection is a feature of the SoapBox engine that allows users to search for a word or phrase (even multiple examples…

We recently published our white paper “Can Speech Recognition Help Children Learn to Read?” to spur further discussion on the potential…

Designing visual cues to support voice experiences

Capturing audio

Scoring and feedback