Everything SLPs Ask About EASI

Individual access is currently $39 for one month with MySLP and 4 report tokens, or $199 for one year with MySLP and 50 report tokens. Additional report-token packages are available, and organizations of 10 or more can request group pricing. These details were verified with Northern Speech Services on August 6, 2026; confirm current pricing and terms on the purchase page before ordering.

Individual EASI access is purchased through Northern Speech Services, EASI’s distribution partner. The pricing page and purchase buttons on this site take you to the current Northern Speech product listing. School districts, clinics, and staffing organizations can use the EASI contact form to discuss group pricing, procurement documents, agreements, onboarding, and deployment needs before placing an organization order.

No. EASI is available for purchase, while individual features may continue to evolve as the team improves the platform. The public website describes the workflows currently offered and avoids promising unverified capabilities. If a particular feature, file type, integration, or organization requirement is essential to your decision, contact the EASI team for current availability and fit before purchasing or planning a deployment.

No. EASI organizes evidence, calculates supported measures from clinician-reviewed information, and prepares drafts or suggestions. You stay in charge. The SLP reviews source material, corrects transcripts, interprets results, determines diagnosis and eligibility, chooses goals and recommendations, edits documentation, and approves or signs the final record. EASI is designed to reduce repeated administrative work without transferring clinical decisions to software.

Automatic transcription is a draft, not verified clinical evidence. Accuracy varies with audio quality, speakers, noise, speech characteristics, and language. EASI uses a Draft → Review → Attest → Score workflow so the clinician can correct words, speaker labels, and IPA details before analysis. If a transcript, metric, interpretation, or draft looks wrong, do not attest or finalize it; correct the source, rerun the step when appropriate, and use clinical judgment.

MLU should be calculated from the clinician-reviewed, attested transcript—not silently from an unreviewed machine draft. EASI first produces a draft that the SLP can edit, then requires review and attestation before transcript-derived measures are treated as ready for scoring. Because word boundaries, morphemes, speaker turns, and transcription choices affect MLU, the clinician should inspect the underlying sample and confirm that the analysis is appropriate.

The clinician reviews and corrects morpheme representation before relying on transcript-derived measures. Automatic transcription can miss, substitute, or mis-segment small grammatical forms, especially in noisy recordings or atypical speech. EASI’s review workflow lets the SLP edit the transcript and related details before attestation and scoring. The clinician remains responsible for deciding whether an omission reflects the speaker’s production, a transcription error, or a sample that needs more evidence.

Yes. EASI supports organization-specific report templates so reviewed findings, scores, and relevant patient or student context can be drafted into the structure your clinic or district expects. Context may include age, languages, history, diagnoses, goals, prior evaluations, IEPs, or selected records. The clinician reviews the rendered report, edits every clinical interpretation and recommendation, and approves the final document before it becomes part of the record.

EASI supports language-sample and speech measures such as MLU, IPSYN, vocabulary diversity, PCC, intelligibility, phonological information, and related metrics when the workflow and available data support them. A metric is not a diagnosis or a complete evaluation. The SLP reviews the transcript, sample adequacy, elicitation context, applicable norms, linguistic background, other assessment evidence, and the meaning of each result before using it clinically.

Yes. You can upload an existing audio recording instead of recording the interaction live in EASI. You can also type or paste a hand-prepared transcript, import supported transcript files, or bring in a conversation transcript exported from InnerVoice. Audio quality and format can affect processing, and every generated transcript remains a draft for clinician review, correction, and attestation before transcript-derived analysis.

EASI can retain relevant language background and selected contextual records, but the SLP must determine whether a workflow, transcript, metric, comparison, or interpretation is appropriate for the languages and speaker involved. Automated transcription and norms do not remove the need for linguistically responsive assessment. Review the transcript carefully, use qualified interpreters or language-specific resources when appropriate, and avoid treating an English-based metric as complete evidence of a multilingual person’s abilities.

Yes. iTherapy makes a Business Associate Agreement and security documentation available for organizations evaluating HIPAA-regulated use. Public materials describe encryption, authentication controls, audit logging, incident response, and data-lifecycle controls. HIPAA compliance still depends on the agreement, configuration, users, data, intended workflow, and each organization’s own practices. Privacy, legal, and procurement teams should review the current documents before deployment.

Yes. School districts can request student-data privacy, security, and procurement documentation for FERPA and state-specific NDPA review. Requirements vary by jurisdiction and organization, so a website statement cannot determine compliance for a particular deployment. District privacy, legal, technology, and special-education teams should evaluate the current agreement, configuration, data handling, retention, and intended use against their own policies before approving EASI.

EASI keeps review and approval points inside the work itself. The SLP corrects and attests transcripts before transcript-derived scoring, selects which profile records and supporting documents may inform a report, interprets measures, edits every clinical statement, chooses progress designations, and approves or signs final documentation. EASI connects those safeguards across analysis, reports, notes, planning, materials, and scheduling instead of treating generated text as a finished clinical record.

SALT is dedicated language-sample software with transcription, analysis, standard reports, and comparison databases. EASI includes clinician-reviewed language-sample analysis but is designed around a broader connected caseload workflow: recordings, supporting context, clinic or district report templates, progress documentation, therapy notes, MySLP planning and materials, and scheduling. The right choice depends on your setting, analysis needs, preferred workflow, comparison data, procurement requirements, and the clinician’s review process.