Editing Cindy Smart (section)

== Capabilities ==

Cindy Smart has the appearance of a standard female doll. The doll is {{convert|18.5|in|cm|1}} tall with blonde hair and blue eyes, and is intended to appear five years of age.<ref name=wired>{{cite magazine |first=Sonia |last=Zjawinski |title=Stepford child |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=August 2002 |url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/cindy.html |accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref> Cindy Smart differs from other dolls because of her extra equipment, which includes: a [[digital camera]] in the doll's torso,<ref name=time>{{cite web |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934259_1934566_1934571,00.html |first=Dennis |last=Galante |title=Cindy Smart doll |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=18 November 2002 |access-date=14 October 2014}}</ref> a [[16-bit]] [[microprocessor]] in the stomach, and [[Speech recognition|voice-recognition software]].<ref name=theage>{{cite news |first=Rachel |last=Wells |title=Move over Barbie, Cindy's way too smart |newspaper=[[The Age]] |date=20 Aug 2003 |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/19/1061261150086.html |accessdate=15 October 2014}}</ref> The camera makes Cindy Smart the first doll that can see.<ref name=nytimes/>

When someone speaks to Cindy Smart, the software attempts to match the speech to one of 70 preprogrammed commands. If the command calls for reading, the digital camera searches for text in a 15-degree sector in front of it. The microprocessors compare the text with a database of words.<ref name=wired/> The doll then gives the word and its spelling aloud,<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news |first=Rebecca Fairley |last=Raney |title=A chatty doll of a different kind |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 August 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/circuits/01DOLL.html |accessdate=14 October 2014}}</ref> unless the word is an [[profanity|expletive]].<ref name=advertiser>{{cite news |first=Jewel |last=Topsfield |title=New toy can read, count and tell the time |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |date=23 August 2003 |page=44}}</ref> The doll can recognize 650 [[English language|English]] words, as well as some [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] words. The doll can also do basic math, recognize shapes and colors,<ref name=time/> and tell time.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Yoseph |last1=Bar-Cohen |authorlink1=Yoseph Bar-Cohen |first2=Cynthia L. |last2=Breazeal |authorlink2=Cynthia Breazeal |title=Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots |date=2003 |publisher=[[SPIE]] Press |page=328}}</ref>