Dr. Patricia Scanlon of SoapBox Labs Talks Voice AI and Education - Voicebot Podcast Ep 206

Dr. Patricia Scanlon is CEO and co-founder of SoapBox Labs, the
leading company focused on voice recognition technology for
children. Most voice recognition solutions today are optimized
for adult speakers and have high error rates when applied to
children's vocal patterns which are constrained by immature
biological development and language proficiency. SoapBox Labs was
created to fill this gap in ASR performance for kids.


In today's interview, Scanlon discusses the EdTech market, the
changing perceptions of venture capital related to the segment,
new applications for speech recognition for children, and how
COVID-19 has impacted the market.


Dr. Patricia Scanlon earned an undergraduate degree in electrical
engineering and then went on to complete her PhD in speech
recognition with a focus on signal processing and machine
learning at the University College Dublin. Those studies included
research at both Columbia University and IBM. That was followed
by seven years on the research staff at Bell Labs and
Alcatel-Lucent before founding SoapBox Labs.