PhoenixSteps turns daily speech-therapy exercises into a 5-minute game kids actually play. Face praxia, articulation drills, an anatomical mouth atlas, and clinical mm-precision — all running on your iPhone or iPad. Built with a speech-language pathologist.
Methodology grounded in Borrás & Rosell's three-phase model. Designed with a practicing speech-language pathologist.
ARKit face tracking watches the child practice lip seal, tongue protrusion, jaw mobility and cheek puff. Scoring on the clinical 0/1/2 scale. No therapist needed at every session.
"Repeat after me" loop with on-device Whisper recognition. The child says rosa, ratón, casa, gato — the app scores precision and tracks progress per phoneme group.
Vintage anatomical illustrations of the mouth in sagittal, frontal and profile views — animated to show where the tongue should land. Slow-motion playback (0.25× — 1×) for kids and clinicians.
Ten milestones on a phoenix-themed journey, three unlockable companion characters. Stars for effort, not just perfection. The kind of stamina loop that keeps a 5-year-old coming back.
Toggle in Settings to surface real millimeter readings (lip aperture, lip protrusion, jaw drop) from TrueDepth's depth map. Compare sessions, share with the therapist via the PDF report.
Spanish and English UI and audio. Warm, natural voices for prompts and celebratory feedback — no robotic TTS. Designed to sound like a kind clinician, not a computer.
The methodology comes from Borrás & Rosell's three-phase model (learning → automation → follow-up) and is co-designed with a practicing speech-language pathologist. Parents get a friendly daily routine; clinicians get clinical-grade tracking, PDF reports and millimeter-precision metrics from the TrueDepth depth map.
Everything runs inside the iPhone's chip. No audio, no video, no face data, no transcripts ever leave the device. Camera feed is processed live and never recorded. Session records, scores and reports live only on the device and are deleted when the app is uninstalled.
PhoenixSteps is in clinical pilot. We'll email you when it's available on the App Store.
No. PhoenixSteps is an accessibility and education tool meant to complement, not replace, supervised speech therapy. It is not approved by any health authority and does not diagnose, treat or cure any condition. Use it under a clinician's guidance for best results.
Designed primarily for children 3 and up — the age range where face praxia and articulation work begins. Adults practicing speech rehabilitation (e.g., after stroke) also benefit from the same exercises; the UI scales between a kid-friendly mode and a clinician-friendly mode.
Children's faces and voices are some of the most sensitive data we can think of. PhoenixSteps processes all camera frames, audio samples and metrics on the iPhone's Neural Engine. Nothing is ever uploaded. Even the AI models for speech recognition and reports run locally.
iPhone with Face ID (TrueDepth camera) running iOS 26, or any iPad Pro / iPad Air with Face ID. The TrueDepth camera is what powers the precise face praxia tracking and the clinical-mode millimeter measurements.
When the parent or therapist flips on Clinical mode, the activity ring during face exercises gains a small mm readout under it (e.g., lip aperture, lip protrusion, jaw drop). Readings come from the TrueDepth depth map sampled at specific face landmarks. They are approximations, not certified clinical measurements — but they let the clinician compare sessions and patients consistently over time.
PhoenixSteps is built by AstroLexis LLC in collaboration with a practicing speech-language pathologist. Contact: contact@astrolexis.space.
