Talk to Rubble

Natural Language Processing Interactive Game

Target Audience: 3-5 years old

Episodes: 2 interactive episodes

Teams: Play-along Product, Viacom Emerging Labs, Digital Consumer Insights, Keen NLP, Noggin Learning Team

Launched: 2021

The goal with the first interactive episode to integrate Natural Language Processing was to create an interactive video-based experience that responds to preschoolers’ voice input. Kids should feel like they are having a conversation with a Nickelodeon character, and that the character understands and responds to them.

The game intends to teach children about emotions while Rubble acts out how he is feeling. Then he asks what the user thinks is the emotion he is portraying. Instead of tapping or dragging, the user talks directly to Rubble in this first of a kind preschool game.