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Sony Unveils PSP Translator

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the essential-survival-toold-for-tokyo dept.

jonerik writes "Sony has released software for its popular PSP handheld gaming device called TalkMan. In development for some time now, the program currently stores about 3,000 conversation patterns in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. 'A user may speak the words "Koko-wa-dokodesuka?" (Where is this?) in Japanese, for example, into the device's microphone, upon which a cartoon bird acting as an interpreter will pop up and start talking in the user's language. The bird is also able to translate the reply into Japanese.' A European release for TalkMan is expected in the spring."

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  1. Decent Games by phase_9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even tho this is old news, I wish Sony / The Publishers would get their act together and release some decent games for the PSP. At the moment, the only good thing to do with them is illegal (homebrew, emuz, etc).

  2. 1 ! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1 !

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    1. Re:1 ! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Wow!

      Slashdot translates chinese really well!?

      I actually posted "First Translated post!" in chinese but its been interpreted somewhat differently.

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  3. Sad News Today. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems that Slashdot darling Google GOOG has come to the end of its irrational and meteoric climb . It what seems to be another tech bubble burst as Google's stock price fell more than 12% in after hours trading Tuesday because of lower than expected earnings reports for that last quarter. Google shares continue to fall today, already don another 9% and further sliding is expected due to a UBS downgrade it is causing a ripple effect on the Nasdaq.

    Thus far this down turn has resulted in a market capitalization loss in excess of $25 Billion for Google. This is really big news! But, since it is heresy to the Google fan boyz, Slashdot is completely silent on the matter a marked turn around from yesterday where Slashdot had three breathlessly positive announcements of Google's recent activities on its front page!

  4. Good by Ikyaat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is awsome! The next time I'm surrounded by metal munching sharks I can speak "Bah weep granna weep ninny bon" into my psp and I wont get thrown into a pit full of sharktacons.

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  5. OLD NEWS! by umijin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C'mon - this is old, outdated news by internet standards. At least two months old and not worth posting so late. Yeah, it's pretty cool software - but we knew about it LONG ago.