Apple has bought up the talent it needs to make talking toys a part of Siri, HomePod, and its voice strategy. Apple has acquired PullString, also known as ToyTalk.

Buying PullString could jumpstart Apple’s in-house catalog of speech-activated toys for kids👶 as well as beef up its tools for voice developers.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/apple-buys-pullstring-toytalk/