MIRDC has received a prestigious Silver Award at 2026 Edison Awards for its groundbreaking innovation, and the innovative technology is MagicABC. The award-winning technology is an AI-Guided Interactive Speech-Language Therapy System, and it aims to help children with speech delays.

Taiwan is facing a shortage of Chinese speech-language pathologists, which limits the amount of clinical therapy available for children with speech delays. To address this challenge, MIRDC has developed MagicABC, an innovative speech-language therapy software designed to help alleviate the shortage of Chinese speech-language pathologists in Taiwan.

Most speech-language therapy software offers one-way therapy. MagicABC integrates Chinese clinical data into Speech-Language Pathologist-Agent, embedding a virtual speech therapist into games. Through two-way communication and instant feedback, it breaks the limits of traditional one-way therapy.

Furthermore, the software introduces three major innovations. First, it integrates interactive guidance, speech recognition, and text-to-speech to create a dynamic feedback cueing mechanism that simulates common therapeutic prompting techniques based on user responses. Second, it features AI-driven therapeutic guidance. The software combines clinical and general corpora with in-context learning to dynamically adjust dialogues according to context and learning progress. Third, the software applies Natural Language Processing (NLP) to evaluate language abilities in semantics, syntax, and pragmatic, and then generating personalized learning reports.

For applications, MIRDC has partnered with more than 10 medical and educational institutions, and 81% of cases show improvements in language comprehension and verbal expression. In the future, the software will expand into applications such as aphasia rehabilitation, special education, home-based rehabilitation, and cross-language training, with the goal of building a sustainable intelligent speech therapy ecosystem.