Barbie’s dialog is actually stored in the cloud, so you need a constant connection to the internet for her to say anything interesting. To get the doll to respond to speech, Barbie’s creator Mattel worked with a company called ToyTalk to come up with 8,000 lines of dialog for Barbie. So you don’t have to worry about her listening in surreptitiously on what you say, despite reports in the media to the contrary. The belt buckle switch is mechanical, so no hacker could bypass it without having physical access to Barbie’s circuit board.īarbie actually works a lot like a push-to-talk walkie-talkie. More to the point, if Barbie’s belt buckle isn’t depressed, she can’t listen to anything. You press the button to start the conversation and release it to hear Barbie respond. You start a conversation by pressing a button built into her belt buckle.
It uses Wi-Fi and speech recognition technology to engage in a two-way dialogue. The Hello Barbie doll is a voice-enabled toy that has been part of the controversy.
There’s been a lot of discussion in the media about privacy and home appliances that listen to conversations. Parents leery of privacy invasion have little to fear from Barbie, whose language skills mainly reside in the cloud.
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