So Sound have served the Toy Industry for over 20 years, providing development services to many of the major toy companies. Product Design • Concept ideation and gameplay development. • Sketching, vector line drawing and full colour 2D rendering. • Graphics and illustration for product and packaging. Prototyping • 3D CAD (Solidworks), mechanism design and model building (inc. 3D printing). • Electronics design and assembly. • Toy IC programming – Generalplus, Nuvoton, Sonix. Creative Audio • Script writing, sourcing voice talent/singers and holding recording sessions. • Sound Design – e.g. animals, vehicles, baby noises, sci-­‐fi, robots, bodily functions! • Music composition – e.g. pop, rock, reggae, classical, doom metal, surf ballads! • Audio optimization for low-­‐resolution formats and small speaker reproduction. Localisation • Translating scripts, sourcing foreign voices/singers and holding record sessions. • Editing the speech for maximum clarity. • Concatenation of the audio to accommodate as much content on chip as possible. • Updating the chip software with the localised assets. • Managing approvals with in-­‐country representatives.