This indicates to me that interaction with the baby is important for language acquisition equally early on. I wouldn’t try to distract from this with instruments and tools. I do think that there is probably enough talk in your family for that to be no risk here, but I think the general tendency applies.
I don’t think time playing with the talk box funges against vocal interaction with the baby. More, it’s an alternative to playing with toys that don’t buzz in your mouth?
Babies babbling is responding to and mimicking speech they hear early on. It is possible to predict the language from baby babbling and crying early on. See e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/baby/wermke-prespeech-development-wurzburg.html
This indicates to me that interaction with the baby is important for language acquisition equally early on. I wouldn’t try to distract from this with instruments and tools. I do think that there is probably enough talk in your family for that to be no risk here, but I think the general tendency applies.
Here just a general reference about early language acquisition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_development
I don’t think time playing with the talk box funges against vocal interaction with the baby. More, it’s an alternative to playing with toys that don’t buzz in your mouth?