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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. potential potential... by oringo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I don't have to rely on the stupid dubs when watching hentai movies on psp...

  2. And if you speak the words... by ale3ns · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Koko-wa-dokodesuka-rootkit?"

    It replies:

    "what rootkit?"

  3. Bluetooth earpieece.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is rumored that the bluetooth ear piece resembles a small yellow fish.. The user by placing the earpiece into their ear canal can now understand all language, and though logic unbeknownst to us, disproves the existance of god.

  4. Futurama by Roj+Blake · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately so far it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language.

    Speaks into PSP: Konichiwa
    Reply from PSP: Bonjour

    --
    Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.
  5. Does it do Hungarian? by Bob+McCown · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do not want this tobacconist, it is scratched.