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my full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts but you can call me Barbie is there anything else you want to ask Bobbie has had a 21st century makeover in partnership with Mattel SAN francisco-based toy talk created Hello Barbie a doll that can have a conversation and to remember details you tell it like a favorite color I also like literature do you like Shakespeare Barbie this high-tech Barbie has a built-in microphone speaker and Wi-Fi chip and that lets our servers understand what a child says tell a Barbie and also has to send down to the doll a party should respond back with as well when you press the belt buckle the doll is listening sending the audio to toy talk servers recognizing speech running through natural language processing and artificial intelligence engine choosing what barbie should say back and streaming back to device can be in the order of 100 milliseconds hello Bobby is armed with thousands of scripted responses and won't answer inappropriate questions if you're concerned about what data is collected toy talk says parents can always access and delete recorded conversations through the website there are no people with headphones on listening to what children say our servers process audio automatically much like the way that Siri search in Google Maps Cortana and Alexa all work in a similar way other interactive toys have raised security concerns the my friend Kayla doll also converses with kids but doesn't require a password to connect to a smartphone she can be hacked to say bad words or even play music while Kayla has some conversation filters the doll can access the web which may lead to answers potentially unsuitable for kids wow what an interesting question Monica's family Winsky is a former White House intern with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an inappropriate relationship you can expect more toys that will interact converse and learn the company toys dinosaur adjusts to a child's personality by using the same artificial intelligence as IBM's Watson even Google may get into the game the company filed a patent for an internet-connected teddy bear that could react to voice commands and help control other devices talking to your toys is no longer child's play in San Francisco Lexi Avedis cnet.com for CBS News