Honest about scope
Speech Check is a practice and self-monitoring platform — not a diagnostic tool, not a replacement for a clinician. We say so clearly, on every page, because trust comes from being specific about what a tool does and doesn't do.
Skyline Innovation is a small Canadian company building speech and communication tools for people living with neurological conditions — starting with Parkinson's.
Skyline started in 2020 with one stubborn question: why does communication get harder for people living with neurological conditions, and what can be built that actually helps?
Our first product was Flow — an AI-assisted video-chat tool for people with Parkinson's, stroke, and other conditions that affect speech. It was a bold idea, and we learned a lot from it. We also learned what it was missing.
The people we spoke to kept telling us the same thing. The real challenge wasn't the occasional conversation — it was the everyday one. The phone call to a pharmacy. The order at a coffee counter. The conversation with a grandchild. What they wanted wasn't a better video chat. It was a way to practise, between conversations, on their own terms, and to know how their speech was actually doing over time.
So in 2024 we pivoted. We took what we'd learned from Flow and built Speech Check — a guided speech-practice and self-monitoring platform for people living with Parkinson's, including young-onset Parkinson's. Short daily sessions, real-time feedback on how loud and clear and steady your voice is, and the option to share your practice with a speech-language pathologist if you want to.
We're a small team. We build carefully. We don't promise a cure and we don't pretend Speech Check is a medical device that diagnoses anything — it isn't. What it is, we hope, is useful. Useful the way a well-made tool is useful — something you pick up, it does the job, and you trust the person who made it.
We're based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our servers are Canadian. Our values are too: start with honesty about what the product does and doesn't do, build with the people who'll use it, and don't over-promise.
AI-assisted video chat for people with Parkinson's, stroke, and other speech-affecting conditions. Vancouver-based, small team, long roadmap.
Conversations with users, care partners, and clinicians reshape our thinking. The everyday practice — not the conversation itself — is where the real friction lives.
We take what we learned and build a speech-practice and self-monitoring platform. Parkinson's-focused. Canadian-built. Designed to fit into real life.
Free six-month pilot for members across Canada. We're recruiting people living with Parkinson's — including young-onset Parkinson's — and a small number of SLPs to join alongside.
Flow comes back in 2027 — rebuilt around what we learned from Speech Check. Real-time assisted communication, integrated with the practice and monitoring members already do. More to share closer to launch.
Three commitments that show up in how we build, how we describe the product, and how we talk to the people using it.
Speech Check is a practice and self-monitoring platform — not a diagnostic tool, not a replacement for a clinician. We say so clearly, on every page, because trust comes from being specific about what a tool does and doesn't do.
Members, care partners, and speech-language pathologists are part of how Speech Check gets built. The pilot isn't a launch campaign — it's a feedback loop, and we change things based on what we hear.
Voice data stays on Canadian servers, encrypted in transit. We're working through Canadian medical-device compliance preparation with appropriate care. We don't sell data. We tell you what we do with it.
Flow was our first product — AI-assisted video chat for people with Parkinson's, stroke, and other conditions that affect speech. We paused it in 2024 to build Speech Check, because what people told us they needed most was help with the everyday speaking that happens between the big conversations.
Flow returns in 2027, rebuilt around what we learned. It will integrate with Speech Check, so the practice members already do informs real-time assisted communication when they need it. We'll share more closer to launch.
If you want to be among the first to hear about Flow when it returns, email us — details on the contact page.