A toy figure in the form of a doll contains therein an acceleration switch which, when closed by moving the doll, momentarily connects a battery to a microcomputer. By means of a microphone and a zero-crossing counting technique, the microcomputer, although the voice signal constituting the input thereto is not truly representative of the particular words being spoken by the child, generally recognizes several basic words. A voice synthesizer has a number of words stored therein, the microcomputer forwarding various digital codes calling for certain words to be constructed and emitted via a small speaker in the doll's body. Several time restraints are utilized to inactivate the circuitry and to elicit voice responses. The doll recognizes words sounding like Yes, No, or What, and in response randomly selects from three corresponding memory banks a response statement.
Talk back doll