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Patricia Scanlon

Patricia Scanlon

Founder & CEO of SoapboxLabs
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Dublin, Ireland
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Patricia is founder and CEO of SoapBox Labs, a company building voice vechnology for kids. Patricia has over 20 years-experience in speech recognition technology and machine learning systems with the majority of her career working on the commercialisation of research innovations. She has held positions with Columbia University in New York and IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre. She has been the Adjunct Lecturer for Trinity College Dublin and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. Thus far, all her work in R&D has yielded 3 granted patents, 3 patents pending, 21 International Peer-reviewed Journals and Conference papers, and 400 citations to date. She is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Patricia Scanlon’s Soapbox Labs Tech Speaks Louder Than Words
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The Times - May 3, 2020
Patricia Scanlon’s Soapbox Labs Tech Speaks Louder Than Words

Patricia Scanlon clearly wouldn’t put herself in the cohort of tech entrepreneurs who lose sleep about raising investment from grasping venture capitalists. SoapBox Labs, the speech recognition technology company she founded in 2013, has just landed $6.5m (€6m) in series A funding, but she shrugs off the achievement.

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Irish Times – Apr 18, 2020
Irish Voice Tech Company Soapbox Labs Raises €5.8m Irish Voice Tech Company Soapbox Labs Raises €5.8m

SoapBox Labs, a highly-regarded Irish tech company which provides speech-recognition technology for children, has raised €5.8 million to bring total investment secured to date to €10.2 million.

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Patricia Scanlon Voices The Sound Future of Tech
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Think Business – Aug 23, 2019
Patricia Scanlon Voices The Sound Future of Tech

Identified last year by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s “top 50 women in tech”, Soapbox Labs CEO Dr Patricia Scanlon is one of a number of Irish women shaping the future of technology and is addressing a global education problem using speech recognition.

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Irish Times – Apr 18, 2020
Irish Voice Tech Company Soapbox Labs Raises €5.8m Irish Voice Tech Company Soapbox Labs Raises €5.8m

SoapBox Labs, a highly-regarded Irish tech company which provides speech-recognition technology for children, has raised €5.8 million to bring total investment secured to date to €10.2 million.

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Think Business – Aug 23, 2019
Patricia Scanlon Voices The Sound Future of Tech Patricia Scanlon Voices The Sound Future of Tech

Identified last year by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s “top 50 women in tech”, Soapbox Labs CEO Dr Patricia Scanlon is one of a number of Irish women shaping the future of technology and is addressing a global education problem using speech recognition.

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Patricia Scanlon Talks

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Youtube – May 7, 2020
The New Normal with SoapBox Labs Founder/CEO Patricia Scanlon The New Normal with SoapBox Labs Founder/CEO Patricia Scanlon
We speak with SoapBox Labs Founder/CEO Patricia Scanlon Patricia talks about driving the success of SoapBox labs which is Voice Tech for Kids.
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TedX – Jul 3, 2019
How Technology Transforms a Child’s Reading Journey | Patricia Scanlon | TEDxUniversityofLimerick How Technology Transforms a Child’s Reading Journey | Patricia Scanlon | TEDxUniversityofLimerick
. Patricia Scanlon has been recognised by Forbes in 2018 as one of the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech. Dr. Scanlon holds a PhD and 20 years experience in Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence - including at IBM Research and Bell Labs. She is currently Founder and CEO at SoapBox Labs - pioneering state-of-the-art accurate, age-appropriate and safe speech recognition for children. SoapBox Labs technology has application in gaming, VR/AR, toys, robotics as well as for accessibility and education - literacy and language learning for children. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community
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Youtube – Nov 30, 2017
Patricia Scanlon, SoapBox Labs | Inspirefest 2017 Patricia Scanlon, SoapBox Labs | Inspirefest 2017
SoapBox Labs is a Dublin-based start-up that, through a timely meeting during Inspirefest 2016, landed €1.2m in seed funding from Astia Angels. Returning to Inspirefest in 2017, Scanlon took to the main stage to share her entrepreneurial journey.
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