Talking Barbie Doll Definition
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Since dolls were invented, dollmakers have tried many ways to make their dolls more realistic. Creating a doll that could talk was one of the holy grails of the early dollmakers, and the desire to have dolls talk in continually more realistic ways has continued throughout the 20th century into the 21st.
alking Touselhead Lovums
American dollmakers, of course, were also very interested in making a talking doll as composition dolls became all the rage in the early 20th century. One example would be the Talking Touselhead Lovums produced by Effanbee. This doll, created circa 1939, worked by playing "record" cylinders in the torso of the doll. The doll could say nursery rhymes and sing.
Mattel Talking Dolls Including Chatty Cathy
Most of the talking mechanisms created for bisque and composition dolls were somewhat cumbersome and expensive. It wasn't until the Mattel company came up with a simple pull-string talking mechanism that it incorporated in many toys, and then dolls in the early 1960s that talking dolls became widespread and relatively inexpensive. Dolls such as Chatty Cathy, Sister Small Talk, Mrs. Beasly and the Talking Barbie used this mechanism.
Interactive Dolls: Talking Ally and Talking Amanda
Some talking dolls continue to use the pull-string technology today. However, technology has progressed by leaps and bounds and so have talking dolls. Now, its not enough for a doll to talk--the current generation of doll manufacturers wants to create an interactive doll. Amazing Ally and her friends were one of the first forays towards an interactive talking doll in the late 1990s. These dolls could recognize various objects, and they had an internal talking mechanism that could store countless phrases. In 2005, Amazing Amanda was introduced. This doll goes one step further--she has voice recognition technology that allows her to recognize the voice of her "mommy." Its hard to say where new (and cheaper) technologies will take talking dolls in the future, but wherever they go, it will be interesting.
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