telephone apparatus for children which is selectively connectible to home stereophonic sound systems , by way of example . the subject telephone is a talking toy telephone which utilizes a stereophonic sound system requiring a play - back on two separate speakers . one of the speakers is mounted on the base of the telephone and the other speaker is enclosed within a receiver portion of the handset . the tape or record utilized in external apparatus includes two stereophonic channels , one being utilized for a telephone ring which is reproduced by the base speaker of the telephone , and a second channel including numerous type of information which is played back at the handset speaker .