Interactive talking toy
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1. A computer-controlled toy system for interacting with a computer-controlled fanciful figure comprising:
- at least one fanciful figure including a microphone, a speaker and an electrical power source;
at least one computer;
a bidirectional communication link interconnecting the fanciful figure and the at least one computer and enabling communication of speech from said microphone to said computer and from said at least one computer to said speaker; and
translation software residing in the at least one computer and being operative to translate at least some of said speech in a first language into a second language, whereby a user speaking to said at least one fanciful figure in either of said first and second languages can receive a response in the other of said first and second languages.
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Abstract
A toy with developing skills, the toy including a fanciful figure having a capacity to perform an action, and action control circuitry operative to control the fanciful figure to perform the action at different levels of skill at different times.
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1. A computer-controlled toy system for interacting with a computer-controlled fanciful figure comprising:
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at least one fanciful figure including a microphone, a speaker and an electrical power source;
at least one computer;
a bidirectional communication link interconnecting the fanciful figure and the at least one computer and enabling communication of speech from said microphone to said computer and from said at least one computer to said speaker; and
translation software residing in the at least one computer and being operative to translate at least some of said speech in a first language into a second language, whereby a user speaking to said at least one fanciful figure in either of said first and second languages can receive a response in the other of said first and second languages. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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