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“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” That’s what Cassius Clay—who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali—once said about his boxing skills. Ali is considered one of the best athletes of his time, but the “Cassius” I’m referring to is Voxy’s proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool, Voxy Cassius™. It’s the powerful …
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Mar
Mar
Voxy is pleased to announce a partnership with Wise Up, a leading English language school operating in more than 70 cities in Brazil with additional locations in North and South America and Asia. This new partnership will launch on March 14, 2015, with a goal to serve more than 75,000 students within three years. The …
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Feb
Feb
Voxy, the world’s first personalized English learning platform, is proud to celebrate its 5-year company anniversary on February 20, 2015. Co-founders Paul Gollash and Gregg Carey first envisioned a language learning company in 2010, and launched Voxy at TechCrunch Disrupt later that year. Today, Voxy is a leading provider of English learning content and technology …
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Jan
Jan
Maria Khodorkovsky, journalist for Terminology Coordination (http://termcoord.eu/), interviewed Voxy’s Chief Education Officer Dr. Katharine Nielson who explores research that is shaping how foreign language is taught. It’s not uncommon for phrases like “I took three years of Spanish in high school” or “I studied German for two semesters” to be paired with “…and I don’t …
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Jan
Jan
We are happy to welcome, Dale Cook, Chief Technology Officer, to the team Voxy-style! Cook will join Voxy’s Senior Team, managing and delivering technological solutions for the company as it continues to grow. Professional Background 25+ years in the tech industry with the last 18 in the San Francisco start-up scene. Most recently I spent 4 years …
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Jan
Jan
At Voxy, we hire the best tutors around. To find the greatest tutors, we not only look for certain experience and certifications, but also for specific personal characteristics. Below, we’ve highlighted the qualities of a tutor that are important to Voxy and also to learners around the world. Smart First, a great tutor is smart …
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Jan
Jan
Voxy, the world’s first personalized, cloud-based English learning platform, is thrilled to announce a new set of features called Voxy White Labeling. This is Voxy’s response to a specific need expressed by a number of its partner organizations: blending English learning into their own, personalized learning ecosystems is critical. Voxy White Labeling allows organizations to …
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Sep
Sep
We are happy to welcome, Juan Torres, Chief Operating Officer, to the team Voxy-style! Juan is a straightforward entrepreneur and executive. An active learner and intense listener with a long standing passion for technology and building successful businesses that move forward human learning and, hopefully, the human condition. Professional Background Juan has a diverse professional background, including …
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Jun
Jun
Though it is technically a Germanic language, it is not hard to notice that English contains words from both German and Latin. However, these words do not necessarily exist in English as simple synonyms. If you look carefully at pairs of words that appear to mean the same thing, it turns out that they have …
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Jul
Jul
The concept of contextual learning is hardly a new one. American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey imagined it in the first half of the 20th century when he advocated project-based learning and experiential education. Kurt Lewin and David Kolb established similar theories on experiential learning, or the process of making meaning from a direct …