In the modern day, a lot of speech technologies (speech to text) struggle understanding those with stuttering issues since these models are trained on fluent speech. Our goal was to create something that helps with collecting data from this underrepresented group without it feeling like a boring case study.

Our solution — Speak Easy — an app inspired by the road trip and board games we all know and love, but with a twist — all answer inputs would be through speech recording. Inspired by seeing many of my friends and family starting their day off with the wildly successful NYT Games, our team thought this would be the perfect way to kill 2 birds with one stone. Speak Easy provided users an engaging way to get their brains going in the morning alone or with friends, while also helping improve speech technologies that don’t do so well understanding them.