A cloud ‘teacher’ to help children improve reading skills

A new TCD speech recognition tool will help children learn to read

Patricia Scanlon of Soapbox LabsAoife Murphy

Names: Patricia Scanlon

Company: Soapbox Labs

The Pitch: speech recognition platform for reading tuition

Patricia Scanlon, Trinity College Dublin’s first ever spin-in entrepreneur, is ready to take to the market speech recognition technology designed to help primary school children learn to read.

Scanlon has developed a game-based cloud platform for smartphones and tablet computers which can be used in the classroom or the home to provide personalised reading lessons. Her company, Soapbox Labs, ...