Talking Angela

Talking Angela is an interactive-based game app created by Outfit7, and it was released on 18 December 2012 for iOS devices. This app is preceded by I Want To Be Big and succeeded by Angela's Valentine.
It can be downloaded on the Play Store and the App Store.
== Features ==
=== Talking ===
This feature requires the microphone to be enabled on the device. When something is spoken into the microphone, Angela will repeat it back.
=== Gift box ===
The waiter will give Angela a gift wrapped in a box.
=== Drink ===
The waiter will give a different drink to Angela. Each drink creates side effects, such as seeing the world in a dizzy way.
=== Feed the birds ===
Angela will throw bird seeds and a flock of birds will come eat it.
* Formerly, there were 2 buttons for 2 different animations, but in later versions, they were merged in one single button.
=== Heart ===
The waiter will give Angela a chocolate fortune cookie and it will reveal a paper with a quote. However, if Angela is angry, you won't get a fortune cookie which is a punishment for insulting Angela.
=== Clothes hanger ===
New clothes and accessories for Angela can be bought with coins. If the app is uninstalled and then reinstalled, all purchases will be automatically restored.
=== Camera/film ===
This button will record the screen. Unlike most video recording apps, outside sound can be easily heard if it is nearby the device. There is no option for it to only record internal sound.
=== Info ===
The lowercase "i" button gives a page that reveals info about the app.
=== Chat ===
This former feature allowed Angela to have conversations with the player. Users could type in the chat box and Angela would respond back. The feature was removed from the app on March 8, 2016 in version 2.6 due to the eyes rumors.
=== Commands (old versions only) ===
=== Sing to me ===
If you use this command, you will be able to see the That's Falling In Love teaser.
=== Tell me a joke ===
Using this command will have Angela tell a joke for you.
=== Buy drink ===
Using this command will have Angela say a list of drinks.
== Development ==
Talking Angela was created in collaboration with Brillig Understanding, Inc., and was lead developed and designed by the founders of the company Bruce and Sue Wilcox, who had previous experience with AI. The chatbot used for the game was a program called "ChatScript", something Bruce Wilcox had designed himself. The app was targeted at teenagers, and was designed to touch on personality, backstory, and development. Angela herself was designed to be an 18-year old voice and capture the teenage personality by being all about her feelings, making her sometimes rude, selfish or sassy also having her react to your comments about her.
The intent they strived for was having users emotionally attach to Angela. The chatbot itself was designed to understand the vagaries of language, and when put to the test by a judge at the 2012 Chatbot Battles, it came out second, only due to an error in interpreting what the judge meant.
== Characters ==
* Angela
* Waiter
* Rex (cameo)
* Tom (mentioned, cameo)
* Ben (mentioned, old version)
* Roger (mentioned, old version)
* Ginger (mentioned, cameo)
* Gina (mentioned, old version)
* Pierre (mentioned, old version)
* Jack (mentioned, old version)
* Hermione (mentioned, old version)
* Megan (mentioned, old version)
== Controversy ==
In early 2013, a hoax spread that the Talking Angela app was controlled by a ring of child predators that would track the user data and ask them for personal information such as the user's name and age, the user would answer the question using the chat feature. This was based on the fact that a man can be seen in the reflection of Angela's eyes. It has since been largely disproven, as the app's Child Mode prevented children from using the chat feature. The hoax was revived in 2014, which led to the app making its way into the top 10 most downloaded iPhone apps. In 8 March 2016, Outfit7 removed the app's chat feature because of this controversy. Despite the chat feature being deleted, many new reviews on the app stores still bring up the hoax and claim that it still exists, although it is already obvious that it is fake, and you should ignore them.
== Trivia ==
* Despite Angela getting a redesign in the app, you can still see her old design on the "My items" icon.
* In old versions, there existed a face button. If you pressed the button, the app must recognize your face and after that, Angela imitates you depending on what you signal. She yawns, smiles, signs no, and sticks out her tongue. But this has been removed in 2016 because the eye rumours.
* In old versions of the app, you were actually able to make Angela swear by typing "Who is an idiot?" which Angela will respond with "I choose" and say two random offensive insults. This also happened in Tom Loves Angela as it also had a chat feature.
* If you asked Angela if the waiter is Ben, Angela would respond by saying that she does not know his name and that it's not Ben.
** This is later contradicted by Outfit7's 10 Years of Fun! video, which labels the waiter as Talking Ben.
* In the app files, it is possible to find inappropriate names for the sound of Angela's tail touch which are pokeAss4.wav and pokeAss8.wav, the same thing happens in Talking Santa.
* When asked about restaurants, or simply what's popular in France, Angela would mention the popular family diner McDonald's.
** The same business would make crossovers with Talking Tom & Friends later on two occasions.
* The Talking Friends Superstars make a cameo appearance in the app as a street item. In the shop, they can be purchased for 490 coins.
* Angela got her redesign in version 2.4 on December 12, 2014.
* The 2013-2016 icon is taken from Tom's Love Letters's oldest icon but Angela has different ears, unlike the other icon it has a pink screen instead of light and dark purple and there's no border box.
* Almost all of the street items in the app make sounds, but some street items don’t.
* The street item, tablet with My Talking Tom, used to take you to the app store or Google Play Store if you want to install that app. But now in newer versions it will no longer take you to the app store or Google Play Store if you want to install My Talking Tom.
* You can’t access the Hanger button due to the servers being shutted-down, but the only way to access it is by playing a mod of one of the chat versions.
* For Chace! Interactive's 44th Anniversary, the app icon of Talking Angela was changed (close resemblance to the oldest icon) and had some other changes to the game.
== Bugs ==
* As of Android 12, you cannot play the old version of this app from 2014-2016. If the app is opened, the app will crash. It is probably caused by compatibility issues. Currently, there are no known solutions to this other than playing the app on Android 11 or below.
** The oldest available Android version of the app from 2013 cannot be played on Android 11+ due to scoped storage. The same bug also happens with older versions of Talking Ben, Talking Tom & Ben News, Talking Pierre, and other apps released around that time like Talking Gina.
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