VOICE BOX AND DOLL CHARACTER UTILIZING SAME

摘要

The talking doll (10) comprises a doll, figure of an animal, human or imaginary creature and has a fabric body shell (24) and stuffing material (26) within the shell (24). A portion of the stuffing material (26) is cut away to provide a pocket (28) in which the voice box (30) is received. The voice box (30) includes a casing (32), a speaker (40) in the casing (32) positioned to transmit voice sounds from one side (34) of the casing (32), a grating (38) on the casing (32) permitting the voice sounds to be emitted from the speaker (40) to the ambient environment, a voice synthesizing microprocessor (62) mounted within the casing (32), a self-contained power supply (52) in the casing (32) coupled to the microprocessor (62) and the speaker (40), a memory (68) mounted within the casing (32) and coupled to the voice synthesizing microprocessor (62), control circuitry coupled to or incorporated within the microprocessor (62) and coupled to the memory (68) for causing selected voice phrases to be generated by the microprocessor (62) and emitted by the speaker (40), and an actuating switch (74) for actuating the control circuitry to cause a voice message to be emitted from the speaker (40).