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Talkman Euro
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Product Synopsis
«©NCSX»
With the original Talkman software that was released
last year, SCE knocked the Tower of Babel down a
notch with a PSP translation application which
handled English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and
Japanese. The earlier Talkman release still sells
well and a few thousand units are shifted every
week. To conquer the European continent, a new
version of Talkman ships this week which translates
between English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
and Japanese.
The goofy bird named Max returns to reprise its role as the
application's intermediary. To help travelers handle
situations in various settings, the software
features phrases that are suitable for 28 different
settings - for example, if you're in a restaurant, a
selection of applicable phrases appear such as "I'm
a reluctant vegetarian" or "Please take this steak
back to the incinerator from where it came from."
Other settings include the hotel, at the slopes, and
even when you're on the prowl inside a nightclub.
While the success rate of finding love by way of PSP
is still unknown, it could work if the pick up lines
are selected with savvy. Lots of liquor may also
help your cause.
In addition to straightforward translation, Talkman also helps
language learners with pronunciation and listening
exercises to hone your inner Babelfish.
NCS Product Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Talkman is a piece of translation software which
uses a goofy bird named Max as the conversion applet
interface. The languages supported are: English,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. The menus
may be changed to any of the supported languages and
translations may be performed in any direction. For
example, English to German, Spanish to Italian,
French to Japanese, etc.
To use the software as an English
speaking person to converse with a Spanish person, speak in English
into the plug-in microphone (included) and Max will
translate the dialogue into Spanish and say it to
the person you're trying to communicate with. Once
Max has spoken, the microphone will pick up the
reply from the Spanish speaking person and Max will
once again translate the spoken words into English.
In essence, Max is a fairly adept interpreter who
can handle 3,000 general phrases such as "Where is
the bathroom" but convoluted dialogue such as "The
allure of the El Prado Museum sings to me" will
stump Max.
In addition to the voice recognition/translation
application, the Talkman software includes a
rudimentary language tutor, a measurement conversion
utility, an alarm clock and a note recorder for
reciting memos.
Every copy of the game includes a slim microphone
which plugs into the USB port of the PSP. There's a
little dial on the left side of the mic which
adjusts the audio level (pickup) for voices. Unless
someone is speaking very softly, we found that the
midrange setting worked well but in crowd situations
with loud background noise, the higher audio level
was necessary.
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This document is ©NCSX 2006. All rights reserved. No
reproduction in whole or in part of this document
may be made without express written consent of
National Console Support, Inc.
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