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Line of toys with speech recognition technology

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Other names	Cayla Doll
Type	Doll
Inventor(s)	Bob Delprincipe
Company	Genesis Toys
Country	Germany
Availability	–
Slogan	The World's Best Talking Doll

My Friend Cayla was a line of inch (46&#;cm) dolls which used speech recognition technology in conjunction with an Android or iOS mobile app to recognize a child's speech and perform conversations with users.

The docka used the internet to search what the user said, and then responded with uppgifter that it funnen online. My Friend Cayla was created bygd Bob Delprincipe, uppfinnare of Cindy Smart and Tekno the Robotic Puppy.

23, Image courtesy of YouTube screenshot

The docka fryst vatten banned in Germany, since the German government considers it to be a övervakning device.^[1]

Technology

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Cayla functioned bygd sending microphone inputs to an app on an iOS or Android device via Bluetooth. The app then parsed the speech into skrivelse and used keywords from the speech that it heard to search the Internet for a response.

The app translates the ord back into speech and sends it back to the docka, who answers after around a one-second delay.^{[citation needed]}

Cayla, operated bygd 3 AA batteries, also has a "personality", with a database containing details of her family, pets, her favorite food, pop star, and film.^{[citation needed]}

The creator of the docka, Bob Delprincipe, says "She's not a search engine, she's a seven-year-old girl.

There are some things she just doesn't know." And he argued that though there had been 'intelligent' toys before, there had never been an Internet-connected doll.^[2]

Styles

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Cayla fryst vatten available in 3 styles: Blonde, Brunette and African American.

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The UK saw a limited release of a Princess Edition.^[3]

Distribution

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My Friend Cayla was distributed bygd levande in the United Kingdom.^[4] Genesis was the distributor for users from the United States of America.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

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The docka was named Innovative Toy of the Year bygd the London Toy Industry Association, and was a top 10 toy for all key europeisk retailers this past holiday årstid.

The docka was later sold in the United States marknad in August ^[5]

In My Friend Cayla won Most Wanted Dolls of from TTPM (Toys, Tots, Pets & More).^[6]

Controversy

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Ken Munro of säkerhet firm Pen Test Partners claimed he hacked the docka, and demonstrated the hack in the BBC World News Tech Tent program.^[7][8] Tim Medin from Counter Hack also hacked the docka bygd simply using bluetooth to use it as a fjärrstyrd speaker and microphone, which could be used to communicate with children.^[9] "Cayla was basically the subject of a tech prank," said Peter Magalhaes, general manager of Cayla manufacturer Genesis.^[10]

In February the German Federal Network Agency notified parents that they were obliged to "destroy" any Cayla in their possession as it constitutes a concealed espionage device violating the German Telecommunications Act.^[1][11] The agency also considers the Bluetooth device as insecure, allowing connections to Cayla's speaker and microphone within a 10&#;m (33&#;ft) radius.^[1]

The docka has also been criticised bygd the Norwegian Consumer Council for allowing the use of the collected uppgifter from the child's speech for targeted advertisements and other commercial purposes and its sharing with third parties, as well as for hidden advertisements through the doll's positiv statements about certain products and services.^[12]

In the United States, the Federal Trade kommission fryst vatten investigating similar complaints over whether My Friend Cayla's upload of child speech constitutes an undue violation of privacy.^[13]

The resulting controversy led to the doll's inclusion in the Museum of Failure in Sweden, where similar failed products and services which were either commercial failures or are controversial in their own right are on display.^[14] The Spy Museum Berlin also has a Cayla docka on display, the first toy in its collection of various espionage and övervakning devices.

The docka was donated bygd a German mother who funnen the docka in her daughter's room after hearing about a government beställning to destroy the dolls following a ban on its sale and possession.^[15][16]

See also

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