Barking voice commands at a phone, car, computer, or a dedicated voice assistant like Alexa, is pretty commonplace these days, but these systems are usually designed with an adult manner of speaking in mind. Kids have very different speech patterns, and Disney Research has developed a system that caters to a younger crowd, picking out key words from excited chatter and overlapping speech to let kids play a video game with their voice. Mole Madness is the name of the game, and kids control the character with just two simple voice commands. Playing in pairs (either with another child or a robot named Sammy), one player says "go" to get the mole moving across the screen, while their partner steers it upwards by saying "jump". As simple as that seems for a speech recognition system to identify, the kids threw a few spanners in the works with a tendency to chitchat and talk over each other.