Hands on With the PSP Talkman Translator

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday November 26, 2005 @06:26AM 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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PSP Talkman Translator by phunster · 2005-11-26 07:22 · Score: 0, Troll

Some time ago I worked for IBM, they came out with an application that had you talk into a microphone and it would type what you said. A bunch of us sat around one afternoon trying to get it to type negative things about IBM, it wouldn't. I actually have some level of trust of IBM, after the recent mis-adventures of the Sony Corporation I would not trust them to translate a rest room sign for me.