The practice that matters most happens where no one is listening.
For more than a century, learning a hard sound has meant a mirror, a diagram, and a clinician who can only be in one room at a time. There are not enough speech-language pathologists to go around, waitlists are long, and the work that actually moves a child forward happens at home, between sessions, with no one to hear whether it went right.
It started in our own family. Lance's two children were working on their sounds with a speech therapist, and the practice between sessions was the hard part: remembering to do it, knowing whether it was going right, and having nothing to show the therapist at the next visit. Lance, an engineer, built the first version for them. His father Paul saw what it could mean for other families and for the therapists who serve them, and Crisp Speech was formed.
We built CrispSpeech so that practice gets done, gets heard, and reaches the clinician. A patent-pending engine listens for the sounds a child actually produced, not the word it expected, so a "wabbit" is heard as a /w/ in place of /r/. Chip, our robot coach, turns that into a tip a seven-year-old can use. And every recording lands in the speech therapist's review queue, graded in one tap and charted week by week.
Two licensed speech-language pathologists shaped the product and the trial design. Families in Texas are practicing on it now, and what they teach us goes straight into the next release.
Crisp Speech was founded in Texas by Paul Staudacher, President and CEO, and his son Lance Staudacher, CTO and the inventor of the listening engine.
