echo soft skills
Echo Soft Skills provides a voice-first rehearsal platform that lets professionals practice high-stakes workplace conversations with adaptive AI personas. Users engage in spoken dialogue, receive structured feedback with transcript evidence within minutes, and improve across five scored competencies. The platform includes four built-in personas plus unlimited custom creations, with a library of 18 active scenarios.
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- Artificial Intelligence
- Education Technology
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- Enterprise Software
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Product
Problem
Professionals often struggle with high-stakes workplace conversations—such as negotiations, difficult feedback, or client pitches—where poor preparation can cost deals, careers, and client relationships. Traditional training methods like modules or quizzes fail to replicate the pressure and nuance of real dialogue, leaving individuals underprepared for the moments that matter most.
Solution
Echo Soft Skills offers a voice-first rehearsal platform that simulates realistic workplace conversations through adaptive personas. Users engage in spoken dialogue with personas that push back, soften, or go quiet based on their responses, allowing them to practice and refine their approach. After each rehearsal, the platform delivers structured feedback in seconds, scoring performance against clear objectives and providing competency breakdowns with transcript evidence. Coaching notes offer alternative phrasings, helping users improve both what they achieve and how they behave in the conversation. The platform is designed to move beyond passive training, citing research that coached practice yields 88% performance gains versus 22% for training alone.
Target Audience
Primary users are professionals in sales, client management, and leadership roles who need to prepare for high-stakes conversations that affect deals, careers, and client relationships. The platform also serves L&D teams seeking to build organization-specific scenarios around their language, policies, and stakes.
Features
- Voice-based rehearsal loop with four adaptive personas plus unlimited custom persona creation
- Dual scoring tracks that evaluate both outcome achievement and behavioral competency across five competencies: empathy & emotional intelligence, verbal communication, listening skills, conflict resolution, and collaboration & teamwork
- Transcript-backed evidence for every scored objective, ensuring feedback is specific and actionable
- Coaching notes with alternative phrasings to guide improvement
- Scenario library with 18 active scenarios covering feedback, underperformance, client escalations, exec updates, decision meetings, difficult conversations, wellbeing, inclusion & DEI, performance reviews, and negotiation
- GDPR-compliant with UK and EU data residency for enterprise-grade security
- Scenario briefs that set clear objectives before each rehearsal session