Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Robert E Langley

Jennifer R Garbos

Kevin W Swanson

Nicholas Pedersen

Timothy G Bodendistel

Kevin John Bridges

Peter B Friedmann

Jill Marie Klegin

Amy E Cecil

Randy D Smith

William L Brown, Jr

Amy J Kligman

Mary E Gentry

Angela C Ensminger

Charles O'Shields

Leonard Thompson

Systems, methods, and devices for recording, sharing, and storing an audio segment are provided. A user's audio segment is recorded by a recording device, in response to an audible prompt generated by the recording device. In some embodiments, the recording device provides a signal to the user that a recording session is in progress. Having recorded the audio segment, the recording device provides a reply to the user's recording, simulating a conversation between the recording device and the user. In embodiments, the recording device transfers the recorded audio to a sharing device for playback of the recorded audio segment. Further, the recorded audio segment may be transferred to a storage device, for storage and retrieval of the audio segment at a later date. The components of the recording device may be housed inside a commercial embodiment, such as a stuffed toy, for concealed recording of the user's audio segment.

System for recording, sharing, and storing audio

An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video. In one embodiment, the toy is configured to detect only certain types of triggering prompts in certain states, such as, for example, triggering phrases or triggering terms. In this embodiment, and others, the toy is configured to switch between states such that it can at times respond to triggering terms and at other times respond to triggering phrases.

Context-based interactive plush toy

Multi-level display hook

Growing community of inventors

Kansas City, MO, United States of America

Robert E Langley