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Hands on With the PSP Talkman Translator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the handheld-of-babel dept.

PSP News writes "Lik Sang has a review and hands on of Sonys new Talkman accessory for the PSP, which enables translation of 4 of the worlds most spoken languages. From the article: 'Traveling and meeting people from all around the globe sure is fun, but may have its drawbacks when you're not speaking the language. To ease this barrier, innovation comes via Sony which took ScanSoft's speech recognition software and created both an universal language interpreter and trainer for English and a couple of Asian languages: Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean.'"

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  1. possible use by tuxkamen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, is it possible I'll be able to understand the vendors at my local computer shows now? Eh, maybe not, Sony probably programmed it with DRM that "protects" whatever they're saying anyway.

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  2. UT by FluffyCow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This sounds like a really simple version of the Universal Translator..so when do I get mine in my combadge so I can understand spoken Klingon and Romulan?