PSP Talkman Reviewed (ConsoleGameWorld)
The speech recognition works really great and I'd have no hesitation recommending you pick up a copy.
The Talkman for Sony's PSP
is a voice-activated translation software application designed to let
you interact in foreign languages with the help of your PSP. Outside of
pure translations, Talkman lets players play games to test their fluency of a language.
We recently received a Talkman from our friends at Liksang for review. Installation is easy. You simply plug the microphone
into the top of your PSP (which looks sweet!), and insert the UMD and
away you go. The Talkman can convert between 4 languages - English,
Japanese, Mandarine Chinese and Korean.
After testing the Talkman
for a couple weeks, I am happy to report that it works brilliantly. Not
only will it help you in your pronunciation of all the common words in
these languages, it will also help you learn new words, and how to use
them in a sentence.
But perhaps where the Talkman
really couuld come in handy is if you're travelling to another country.
For even if you don't know the language, you could effectively use the
Talkman to communicate with the natives. You see you can ask the
Talkman to say something in another language. For example, if I'm in a
bar in Japan, but I don't know how to ask for a drink, I would navigate
to the "bars/clubs" section on the talkman, and select "ask for drink".
The Talkman then speaks this in Japanese, and prompts for a response
selection in Japanese text, which is then spoken back to you in
English. Simple, but effective! The included mini-games are also a lot
of fun. The speech recognition works really great and I'd have no
hesitation recommending you pick up a copy. If not for travel purposes,
then simply to learn other languages!
Review by Richard Manley.
Get your Talkman from Liksang now for just US$70!
Source:
ConsoleGameWorld