Episode 70 of Voice in Education

Julie Daniel Davis
VoiceEDU
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2 min readMay 24, 2020
Episode 70 of Voice in Education

In episode 70 Julie Daniel Davis interviews Dr. Martyn Farrows, COO of SoapBox Labs. SoapBox Labs “SoapBox Labs is an award-winning voice technology company specializing in the development of automated speech recognition (ASR) for kids” (www.soapboxlabs.com). Unlike many of my interviews, SoapBox isn’t about the use case of voice assistants but about using voice technology, in general, to help children learn. Julie loves their commitment to child privacy and their vision for using voice in meaningful ways. In this episode Dr. Farrows shares the vision and goals of SoapBox Labs with us. Educators, this is a company to watch! While you might not have the ability to interact with their product now, Julie believes this company has a pulse on things to come in the edtech world as voice intersects with need.

Listen here or on your voice assistant device:

https://anchor.fm/julie-daniel-davis/episodes/Episode-70--Voice-in-Education--5-24-20-with-Dr--Martyn-Farrows-of-SoapBox-Labs-eec7sp/a-a28p9f2

Here are links to some great demos of their technology in action:

For English Language Learning:

https://youtu.be/27o-smQADfU — Nancy Age 5

https://youtu.be/wYcXFdDeOjs — two young brothers learning English together

https://youtu.be/_Vl88kQSMvA — two year old Hugh

For Literacy:

https://youtu.be/DhmG7Y3l3CQ

https://youtu.be/UrN3P_3NBOA

https://youtu.be/rr17vAEsj0Y

Our Technology:

https://youtu.be/Z1XdAcCZdGg — a quick look under the hood at how we deliver feedback to a parent/teacher of a kid’s reading and language development that is highly accurate, including showing the phonetic breakdown

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Julie Daniel Davis
VoiceEDU

I write my thoughts in order to deal with them fully. From education topics to spiritual growth...and who knows what's next?