Magical applications that allow cartoon characters to talk to children

Children's games and entertainment have changed dramatically in the age of smartphones. Children use apps to watch videos that interact with their toys in ways that were impossible 10 years ago. Now, not only can they watch cartoons, a app can even allow children to talk to cartoon characters. ToyTalk's chief executive Ollen Yas Jacob (Oren Jacob) is developing a new generation of interactive applications. The company's Speakazoo and Winston show applications can allow cartoon characters to speak, even respond to children's conversations and respond to various responses. Jacob explained: "Compared with my childhood, modern children have more entertainment interaction." ToyTalk applications allow the cartoon number to speak the secret relies on the speech recognition program pullstring, in the backstage can analyze the child response, chooses the appropriate response way for the cartoon character. Cartoon people say everything has been scripted in advance and interact with children in a conversational way. "It's kind of like writing a screenplay, we give the first, third, and fifth lines, and the kids respond to the second, fourth and sixth lines," Jacob said. I did not control the final narrative process, and the child had as much control as I did. Jacob has participated in the production of very popular children's films, including "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo" and so on. While trying to help shoot more Hollywood blockbusters for children, he also wants to strengthen the interaction between cartoon characters and their children. "Linear stories are closely related to interactive entertainment, but they are different," Jacobs said. At least many of our products come from movie blockbusters, but they interact more with children. Since ToyTalk's speech recognition function is very unique, the market prospect of this child's application is very broad. Market research company Ambientinsight found that 2013, the world's children's education game application sales amounted to 1.7 billion U.S. dollars, to 2018 may reach 2.4 billion dollars. Children can use ToyTalk only when they have parental permission. This is because ToyTalk records a conversation record for a child's user and then sends it to a computer running speech recognition software. Parents can hear children talking to ToyTalk cartoon characters, telling stories, and can benefit from it. After that, parents can delete the recordings, or they can share them by email. Many parents even allow their children to have interesting conversations with cartoon characters being put into editorial recommendations so that everyone can hear them. ToyTalk's relaxed attitude extends even to the serious parts of the site, such as a childhood snapshot of all the employees on the site. In September, ToyTalk Company will launch new applications, users need to pay to download, it can provide more recognizable cartoon characters, such as the Loch Ness Monster, chatting with children. These children's conversations can be used by children's cartoon characters in large entertainment companies, but these companies must be licensed by ToyTalk companies. Scientists and technology companies have been working to develop adult voice recognition for decadesSoftware, ToyTalk is in the forefront of developing such applications for children. "Even if the children's speech recognition program is only started, it is less than 2 years old," Jacob said.