The demo worked perfectly in our office. The first week of real-kid testing surfaced 14 edge cases we hadn't modeled: background noise from siblings, tablets held the wrong way, requests in mixed languages. Production voice AI for children requires a feedback loop that academic benchmarks simply can't provide.
From Research to Production: Shipping Voice AI to Real Kids
Lessons learned moving from a promising demo to a production product that real children use daily : where the hard problems actually live.