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fitbabits
01-12-2006, 01:25 PM
Thanks to Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com) for the head's-up (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7769).

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that innovative Japanese-released productivity software Talkman - the PSP title designed to bridge language gaps with the help of an interactive, multilingual bird named Max and a microphone - is on its way to European shores.
From the press release - I kid you not:

"Bring the art of language to your gestures, put words behind the shrugs, turn Spanglish into perfecto Espanol, make the move on the girl or guy in that foreign bar who catches your eye - in short, become a jetsetter able to communicate in six languages with more than 3000 crucial phrases at your fingertips," says today's press release.
I'm trying really hard to figure out whether I'm embarassed or offended - or both!

Lon Lon Rabbit
01-12-2006, 01:58 PM
A friend has the japanese version.
MOST ANNOYING MASCOT EVER.

XenonCJ
01-12-2006, 02:15 PM
M A N T H I S T H I N G W I L L T O T A L L Y G E T M E L A I D!!!!!

Deathbane27
01-12-2006, 02:19 PM
I'll take all the help I can get... -_-

Cha-Ka
01-12-2006, 02:47 PM
TI'm trying really hard to figure out whether I'm embarassed or offended - or both!

Put me down for both please.

Derwin
01-12-2006, 04:11 PM
(In broken Japanese)

"Hey there baby...uhh...." ::looks down at PSP:: "how would you like to...gone with grape crucial, now?"

KamaItachi
01-12-2006, 05:46 PM
"Please do not mug me and take my valuable PS-OW!-"

mister_slim
01-12-2006, 05:46 PM
I wonder if the tech will actually work that well with different languages?

KamaItachi
01-12-2006, 05:56 PM
I wonder if the tech will actually work that well with different languages?

A friend of mine got the original for a novelty and found some translations hilariously inaccurate... it worked with more than one language I think, possibly Chinese too...

However the closeness of the European languages they've got on this one shouldn't prove to be much of a problem.

captainspankypants
01-13-2006, 04:08 AM
(In broken Japanese)

"Hey there baby...uhh...." ::looks down at PSP:: "how would you like to...gone with grape crucial, now?"
My Raisin Bran nearly came out my nose with this one...