How To Make A 1985 Teddy Ruxpin Say Anything You Want 

You could rip the original tape into something like audacity, then isolate the control track, cut it into a bunch of files that you label with their function. Then you can paste them back into a custom control track for your own audio recordings.

My cousin had a Teddy Ruxpin; and I used to put in a Motley Crüe tape; and he did the Vince Neil part perfectly; also put in AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Ozzy.

The fact that you had Straight out of Compton on cassette earned my like

Those tones sounded STRANGEEEE. You turned Teddy Ruxpin into Chucky! 😱

Teddy ruxpin uses Pulse position modulation, you can make a box with knobs to control the eyelids and mouth and record the modulated data onto a tape with the vocals.

Those tones sounded creepy. Like Annabelle type stuff.

If you miss the Mickey Mouse tape you can re-record the tape in a music player on your pc play track 1 on pc then press the record button on a tape player wait then your done

My life is complete. Now Im going on ebay and getting to mess with my family

That same n.w.a tape back in the 80's we use to put inside teddy too lmao wow

You should let a furby or any other animatronic toy speak into the mic so it is recorded on the tape and then put it into teddy ruxpin That would be awsommme

this could easly lift teddy's usablility for other peoples videos. i thank you for this.

I didn't expect a cassette tape to be that complicated. That's pretty awesome!

Would the 1985 WOW Teddy Ruxpin fans be interested in a new device that would allow you to create new stories (or whatever), WITH synchronized animations for both Teddy and Grubby, but WITHOUT using cassette tapes, and WITHOUT modifying Teddy? It would work in real time, no computer or other devices needed. Just speak into the devices microphone, and use the mouth and eye animation controls on the device "as you speak". If you are recording 2 voices and want to push Grubby's voice to his speaker only, there will be a Pan control to do that - in real time, while speaking. Playback would be through Bluetooth to Teddy via a (wireless) bluetooth cassette adapter. I'm a EE, and have a Teddy and Grubby (and "stuff"), and in the process of trying to bring Grubby's animatronics back to life, I created the heart of the device to create the animation control signals... in real time. If this were to be a "product", I would obviously have to make some profit to make it worth my development time and expenses... so just wondering what people might be willing to pay for such? (if at all)

So you basically showed us how to make the Teddy talk just like ALVINNN! And the chipmunks Talking Teddy Episode 😂😂😂

I just got a Teddy Ruxpin today. The person who sold to me, gave me a Best Of 1965-1966 Country Music tape. Watching your video want me to try using a Multiplex tape. I haven't bought batteries yet. I plan to make a video about it on my channel Bart D' Man 95 Lobby Wurkz. New subscriber here by the way.

1:57 *LOWL*

5:58--6:01 "The silliest thing! And sing!" LOL Too funny! XD

Perfect. Now I can get a hundred of these all saying scary things and open up an escape room called Five Nights At Teddy's

an even better way to make it move in sync is to record the channel that has the coding derectly into your computer using a cassette player and audacity or any other audio editor, and record another channel that has your voice, and copy and paste the animation signals to where it will almost perfectly move in sync. when the pitch of the signal goes down, the mouth opens and the eyes close. when the pitch of the signal goes up, the mouth closes and the eyes open! so copy and paste those at the right time of your voice and match it to your voice. use a cassette adaptor in teddy and plugged in to your computer and play the finished audio to see how it moves. if you did not exactly match it, go over it again and make any changes. then, if it is perfect, derectly record that audio on a blank tape! there ya go! I have a teddy ruxpin that has a metal back cassette player while yours is plastic, and when I put other tapes into him, it moves and I didn't put a signal on it! the metal version was the first run, so they changed them over the years to make it better. they changed the metal cassette player to plastic because metal is too expensive, but the metal has a better sound because it is not a cheap material. the reason why yours don't move when a regular tape is inserted, is because there is a switch, actually 2 switches in the cassette player. one of them detects when a teddy tape is inserted and a regular is inserted, so when a regular one is inserted, it wont move because on the metal version, it will damage the motors because of the way it moves. and the other switch is because the metal version, the cassette player still ran without a tape when it was turned on, making kids taking the tape out and not turning off the toy, causing the batteries to run down. so that switch on yours, it wont run without a tape!

My teddy eventually only had those towns and I never knew why.

This is a rabbit hole I wasn’t ready to go down 😂

I have a great idea for this. Just ordered a Teddy Ruxpin with cassette. I love this video!

You are brilliant and I love the fact that you know what a four track recorder is LOL are used to also be in a band and I’ve done a lot of recording back in the day!

It uses the holes in the center top of the casette shell to tell the toy whether to use the animation tones, or play both tracks as audio without animation. Incidently, those center holes are used by higher end cassette decks to determine the formulation (like metal, etc...) of the tape . If you try to record onto a Teddy Ruxpin tape in those decks, the deck would use the wrong mode for the tape's actual formulation, and it won't record properly. You would have to cover those center holes.

Maybe feed those tones into an oscilloscope to see what's actually going on.

2:25 nope im leaving

Yeah,.. I totally have all that gear and a totally have all the digital editing. The tricky part was getting a fully working Teddy Ruxpin to make my own tape,... the whole point is to make a music album specifically for Teddy and Grubby animation.

This was so cool I definitely need to alter a teddy ruxpin

Would it not be easier to find out the "tones", that is the frequencies that are used then just add the signals to the channel when you want the animations to work? A good oscilloscope would do that and a signal generator for the signal recording.

All we would really need to figure out is if the data track tone is a sawtooth, square wave, or a sine wave, and what different pitches do, and mapping them out. Then it’s as easy as using a keyboard, whether that’s a synth, midi, or just an app, to recreate them in whatever pattern you want. Copy to Audacity paired with whatever recording you want, peg audio recording balance all the way to the right and data sound all the way to the left, plug it into a tape recorder (pick up a nasty one at Walmart or a nice one at a thrift store for about the same price), set the recording to stereo, and done.

My dad told me when he was a kid, probably about 4 or 5 years old, his much older sister put an Insane Clown Posse tape in his teddy ruxpin so instead of it being so random story, it was a song about murder. He doesn't remember what song it was but it was the Ringmaster album. Now, him and I are huge ICP fans

In 1986 I was at my friend's house and just for a laugh we stuck in Van Halen running with the devil on the cassette. The thing took a few seconds but it sort of moving its mouth and eyes as running with the devil played over the cassette player. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen but it sure as hell did!

I have (had?) a talking Alf and he animates to any tape you throw in him.

Cool! I really want to try this so I can interrupt a part in one of the tapes I have, play it for my friend and try to freak her out 😂 Also, I've been wondering what the signals coming from my teddy were. Sometimes the tape would stop everything and play the odd animation signals sound but I never knew what it was and it ALWAYS scared me 😂

Digitizing is the way to.go, as you can see the waveforms for each channel; which should help you get the mouth and eyes to match your words more accurately. You might try a new cable, as the one you have may be broken. It often saves time to try the easiest possibility first, and it is often cheaper. Then you can try and see if it's the port for the cable on Teddy or on Grubby.

Maybe try letting another animatronic speak into the mike and record it on tape and put it into teddy ruxpin. That would actually be kind of dope

Holy holy, that's so cool!

Could you imagine if Teddy would talk in reverse when the tape was rewound.

Very cool thanks for sharing this. Here's how I'd start hacking this. I'd start with a video of one of the tapes playing in Teddy, to capture all the mouth and eye movements. And I take the original tape, and capture that with a computer audio recorder, and match both audio tracks - the one from the video and the one from the audio cassette. Then I would cut the control track into little motion samples, the naming them things like "eyes open while mouth is open" "eyes closed while mouth is open", etc. I would record my own audio track and drop those samples where needed. Another possibility would be to record control sounds into a small sampler, and then play the output of that sampler into the Teddy using one of those cassette adapters for very old car stereos.

I guess you can make Teddy Ruxpin say F You now lol

Make him say "I'm gonna kill you late at night" in halloween.

You used to be in a band? That's so cool! What was it called?

Please don’t wreck original tapes,.. you can rehouse normal bias in a type four metal tape case or drill house in a normal bias housing to make the tape work.

So it basically uses tech that Disney used (Audio Animatronics

I’m just amazed that you have a Ruxpin.

I wonder if a car tape adapter plugged into a computer speaker out would work. Then you could edit and play tracks directly from a computer or another device. If that works, maybe try plugging the tape adapter into a $20 bluetooth adapter and connect wirelessly.

If you use one of those old CD to Tape converters (for using a portable CD player in your cars tape player) you could hook that cable up to a tone generator and see what tones cause the mouth and eyes to do different things (probably high and low tones controlling the open and close).

He works off frequencies that technology is past his era

Thank you for this! I took your idea and brought it into the digital realm using a DAW on my PC. I made sure to credit and link to you in comments - Teddy Ruxpin Shout at the Devil tutorial

one step closer to recording a Supafuz cassette for teddy of "Sick of it".

How? THATS AMAZING

My cousin had something like this but it was big bird from Sesame Street. Same idea as teddy. I put one of the tapes for him in a regular stereo and heard the story audio on one track and data like sounds on the other track and I turned the balance control on the stereo until the data sounds went away. If I had the player either teddy or Big Bird I'd make them sing eminem or 50 cent songs.

He will also work with the talking Mother Goose cassette from Worlds of Wonder Playskool and 1985 I still have my original one from when I was a kid I was very gentle with my toys I did a project on what tapes Teddy Ruxpin that can and can't animate him but they would all work in him my favorite one is a backpack toys I was able to fix it I was one of the only people who took time to fix the backpack toys model cuz I'm good at fixing things could you fix shout Elmo which was broken from savers can you do it on camera do you remember my TV show

his left eye is punched in!

Ma'am you are a genius thank you for sharing.

Most interesting video I've seen in quite some time!

I SWEAR I saw an ORIGINAL MODEL one sing the ORIGINAL WHITE cassette of MASTER OF PUPPETS. After all, pealer dun 'er on a 5-stringer....

I will have nightmares after seeing this.

You're a genius. thanks for teaching me.

If you or anyone, who reads this comment are interested, I'm doing a whole series of related videos about how to 'hack'/interface with Teddy Ruxpin, without having to compromise the integrity of his original hardware, and how to modify and program new cassette tapes for Teddy Ruxpin. It really,..much of it, more or less applies to any of the related World's of Wonder animated talking dolls. I have a couple up already from over a year ago, and am presently recording the first of a myriad of methods to program new content for the toy, and should be up, by next weekend. Other Videos will be more related to experiments with interfacing AI software with unmodified WoW Teddy Ruxpin hardware with peripheral devices.

Originally I thought that you had just put some effects on your voice and dubbed it over a video of the bear moving its mouth.

Tried this years ago using one of those cassette adaptors for car stereos plugged into a PC.

You have a Beautiful Voice ❤❤❤❤

I wonder when you will make a video about grubby or even baby teddy ruxpin.

Those control sounds are demonic!

This is what mama tattletale is based off

Great job!

could it work with keyboard?

There are endless ways to rig this toy. we can all agree.

I can’t even come across a Panasonic boom box, for less than like $250

You can animate Teddy Ruxpin using a Casio keyboard and an adapter cable! There's a video on RU-vid of a guy doing it and showing how it's done!

So Teddy's data track is all didgeridoo?

Holy crap! I have that 4 track recorder!!!

Loved it cool

For science.

Pretty slick

Put a 2 Live Crew cassette in Him! LOL!

Can u do the same thing with grubby?

How fun!

Can you make a Teddy Ruxpin playlist

Great work.with the new Bluetooth 2017 teddy, could you do this?

Would using a 3.5mm to cassette adapter and a dual deck stereo work to record a tape from a computer?

I figured this out quite a while ago.

YOu had me at Ebay! LOL That's what I try to look for to resell. Of COurse the KNowledge you have of the equipment is beneficial

My dad used to pop his slayer cassette in his

This is very cool lol

Is this the same doll that inspired the teddy bear they used in the A.I. movie

Add seth MacFarlane voice as Ted. Talking about weed and boinking women

I was thinking of copying and pasting the data bits on Audacity My Idea would be to record the audio from tape over the PC Line-in using Audacity of which is free. Using a 3.5mm headphone to RCA cored

Make Teddy Ruxpin say hack the planet please

Wow I am gonna try!

Unfortunately, you don't just have to be able to access the tracks. You have to figure out how those tones match up to his motions and to record a series of them that correspond to the music so he actually lip syncs.

Very cool!!

You should check out Look Mum No Computer. Sam has a Ferbie organ.

Yea Mickey Mouse tapes are cheap on eBay I actully got a good tape that works for only 12$ I thout it was a pretty good deal!

I m going to try some notorious big and cypress hill

Don't all stereo cassette tapes have 2 tracks? There shouldn't be a need to wreck those tapes. New ones should work just fine.

@With Or Without Fur can you Pleeeeeeeaaaaasssseee fix my teddy

They use to animate to any tape

Haha n.w.a on teddy ruxpin 😂😂😂