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Software Developer Internship

Chatterbox is seeking talented, creative and eager interns to join our development team. In this role, you will play a key role in the design and development of key-aspects of our educational smart speaker, designed to teach programming and AI literacy concepts intuitively to kids in K-12 schools. Responsibilities In this position, you will be […]

So honored to be mentioned on 'This Week in Tech' podcast

We are so honored to have mentioned by Leo Laporte on the BEST TECH PODCAST to have ever existed: This Week in Tech! Make sure to listen to the entire episode, especially the Google I/O review as well as the ethical implications of AI that they announced this past week such as: morphing fakes, the […]

Why all schools should teach AI Literacy

Artificial intelligence is reshaping society, medicine, industry and the future of work. Today’s toddlers are the first generation to grow up without any memory of the world before AI. Kids are growing up learning to talk to smart speakers, use facial recognition with Snapchat filters to generate social memes and ride in their parents’ semi-autonomous […]

ChatterOS Update v1.7.0

January 15, 2021

New ChatterOS Update released January 15th. We're very excited for this update because we've improved performance of Chatterbox by over 30%! Among fixes in this update are better speech handling, improved understanding and handling of date and time as well as block improvements. For full change log, please see below. To download update, you can […]

Check Out Chatterbox on This Week in Tech!

November 30, 2020

We are so grateful to have been mentioned on our FAVORITE podcast This Week in Tech! Many thanks to Leo Laporte and Owen JJ Stone for the mention and Mike Elgan for the incredible plug. As mentioned on the show, the Chatterbox Cyber Monday special is going on all week! Use code CYBERMONDAY at checkout […]

Tutorial 13: Build a dictionary skill

On day 13 of our 30-day skill challenge we will be building a simple dictionary skill to look up the meaning of any word. Have you ever come across a word and not know what it means? Today we are going to teach Chatterbox how to look up word definitions for you so you can […]

Tutorial 12: What time is it in Timbuktu?

On day 12 of our 30-day skill challenge, we'll be learning about Date / Time objects and how we use them to teach Chatterbox to how to tell time around the world. So far we've learned how to get weather based on your location or find answers to complicated questions. But what if we wanted […]

Tutorial 11: Search DuckDuckGo for Extended Answers

On day 11 of our 30-day skill challenge, we'll be teaching Chatterbox how to search Duck Duck Go for extended answers regarding topics. Learn about the Spanish Inquisition or learn about the American Revolution. We've previously taught Chatterbox how to answer specific questions about the height of the Empire State Building or the depth of […]

Tutorial 10: Ask Wolfram Alpha

On day 10 of our 30-day skill challenge, we'll be teaching Chatterbox how to get answers to life's toughest questions. We'll be able to find out the distance to the moon, calculate the number of days until Thanksgiving and get the answer to what is the meaning of life. Today we are going to learn […]

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