Die Sony PSP als Reisefuehrer?

Eine Uebersetzungssoftware fuer die PSP: der Talkman.
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Talkman makes debut as latest language assistant software
By Masato Inoue
TOKYO — A new software named Talkman is the latest addition to an assortment of translation devices marketed in Japan to help people traveling abroad or those who want to rely on machines to strike up a conversation with foreign visitors. [...]

The software put on sale by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc in November for Sony's PlayStation Portable gaming system is designed to enable better communication between Japanese people and visitors who speak English, Chinese or Korean.

About 3,000 conversation patterns that could take place during the course of shopping or visiting holiday destinations are recorded on Talkman. 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.

Yoshiteru Yamamoto of Sony Computer Entertainment said Talkman cannot translate everything but it can create a chance for communication. Its emergence demonstrates to what degree electronic devices have become able to recognize and analyze voices so they can be used as aids to communicate in foreign languages.
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(c) 2006 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission.
February 1, 2006
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