Evidence-backed European AI register
SoapBox Labs
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for SoapBox Labs.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- Irish company; now a subsidiary
- Ownership
- subsidiary of Curriculum Associates (US) — acquired November 2023, terms undisclosed
- Founded
- 2013
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
Curriculum Associates, a leading education technology company, announced today that it has acquired SoapBox Labs
SoapBox Labs is now under a US parent; however, no current explicit headquarters wording for SoapBox itself was found in the reviewed material.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- SoapBox children's speech recognition engine
- Type
- asr
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- English, trained on thousands of hours of children's speech from 193 countries across ages, races, accents and dialects
- Licence
- proprietary
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
Founded by speech engineer Patricia Scanlon in 2013; built the leading children's-voice ASR engine and licensed it to 50+ education companies (Scholastic, McGraw Hill, Imagine Learning, Amplify, Learning Without Tears). Acquired by US edtech firm Curriculum Associates in Nov 2023 for undisclosed terms and folded into i-Ready. Recorded as an Irish AI exit to US ownership, not a live independent European lab.
Record sources
- https://www.curriculumassociates.com/about/press-releases/2023/11/curriculum-associates-expands-student-focus…
- https://marketbrief.edweek.org/strategy-operations/k-12-dealmaking-curriculum-associates-scoops-up-soapbox-la…
- https://thejournal.com/articles/2023/12/05/curriculum-associates-acquires-soapbox-labs-gains-ai-speech-recogn…
- https://www.curriculumassociates.com/about/press-releases/2025/08/ai-labs