According to N, Singer (2015) A wifi enabled version of the iconic doll that uses the Toy Talk’s system to analyze speech and produce relevant responses; will be introduced by American toy manufacturing company ‘Mattel’ and Toy Talk, this Fall.
The Hello Barbie works by recording and processing the users voice. Pressing a button in the dolls belt to ask a question, and then it records the response with an embedded microphone transmitting it to the cloud servers. Toy Talk startup uses voice recognition software to save and decode the users content, and then uses it to formulate an appropriate response from Barbie.
Cofounder of ToyTalk states that “ We hope that when she’s ready, she will have thousands and thousands of things to say and you can speak to her for hours and hours.”
This doll is a big step from the previous conversational apps like The Winston Show and Speakazoo that allowed children to engage in complex conversation.
After reading so many articles on the “hello Barbie” I think that it may be a pretty cool idea, but at the end of the day one can only wait to see the end results.
For further information http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/technology/a-wi-fi-barbie-doll-with-the-soul-of-siri.html?_r=0
I agree, I think it's a nice idea but I do believe that a lot of parents would be hesitant to buy this product for their children.
ReplyDeleteThe world that we live in anything is possible, there is nothing to difficult for man to make these days. This is not a bad idea. The real question would be what would be the cost and who can afford such an item. Today's kids are moving away from the conventional toys and are more interested in the latest gadgets so this Barbie would have to be very special.
ReplyDeleteThe estimated price for this doll is US $74.99
ReplyDeleteThis doll might be a good product thus helping some kids that are anti social or just shy let's wait and see the results of such product
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