Context-based interactive plush toy

摘要

An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.

主权项

1. An interactive toy comprising:
a body having an interior cavity; a speech recognition unit at least partially positioned within the interior cavity, the speech recognition unit configured to receive audible sounds corresponding to a literary work and, to identify a combination of at least one triggering phrase and at least one non-triggering phrase in the audible sounds corresponding to the literary work, wherein the literary work comprises:
(1) a plurality of non-triggering phrases that form part of a story told in the literary work;(2) a plurality of other words that are neither non-triggering phrases nor triggering phrases; and(3) the at least one triggering phrase that also forms part of the story told in the literary work, wherein the at least one triggering phrase is selectively placed among the plurality of other words that are neither non-triggering phrases nor triggering phrases and the plurality of non-triggering phrase to assist the speech recognition unit in differentiating the at least one triggering phrase from the other words a sound module at least partially positioned within the interior cavity, the sound module having a controller with a plurality of audio messages stored therein for selective playback via a speaker, wherein the sound module activates one or more messages if once the combination of the at least one triggering phrase and the at least one non-triggering phrase is received and identified by the speech recognition unit; and a user engagable switch for powering on the interactive toy.