These Toys Don’t Just Listen To Your Kid; They Send What They Hear To A Defense Contractor – Consumerist

These Toys Don’t Just Listen To Your Kid; They Send What They Hear To A Defense Contractor – Consumerist: These particular toys — basically a “girl” and “boy” theme on the same core idea — both use voice recognition tech to “listen” to the kids that play with them.

They connect via Bluetooth to a mobile phone app, usually belonging to a parent, and then from there access the internet in order to interact with kids and answer their questions. To accomplish that feat, the apps record and collect conversations between the toys and the kids, and use speech-to-text protocols to turn kids’ questions into searchable queries.

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