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Sony Announces TALKMAN

Posted Sep 14, 2005 at 10:20PM EST by QJ Staff

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Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan (SCEJ) has announced the TALKMAN for the PSP. The TALKMAN will become the first speech recognition device for the PSP.

The TALKMAN will connect a microphone to the USB port of the PSP. TALKMAN will be bundled with special software (and most likely a 2.0 update) to allow for four languages to be spoken and translated. Languages are to include Japanese, Chinese, English and Korean and will be translated via speech recognition. The pronunciation of the languages can also be checked and there will be a game mode for single person, perhaps to learn a new language. More info will be known at the Tokyo Game Show this weekend lasting from the 16th to the 18th this September.

TALKMAN is expected to be for sale this November 17th, unknown if it will be a world release at the same time. The price will be 5,800 Yen (about $53US), and will include the USB microphone.

The USB microphone (PSP-240) is a monaural condenser microphone which will weigh approximately 6 grams and measures 50x10x10mm (width x height x depth)

This is really a great product to see coming from Sony, I really can’t wait to get one for myself!



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# Guest 2005-09-14 20:09
Yes!!!!! I remember reading about this (and watching a trailer) a very long time ago, and wanting it badly. It also teaches you languages. If I remember correctly, it was planned to include 12 languages! That's a lot of data on a 1.8GB disc. Max (the bird) is sooo cool.

And this was planned a while ago, so don't complain about it becoming like DS (DS doesn't have these graphics :P)

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# Guest 2005-09-14 22:21
holy flipping goat sh*t... do you kids just not get it? you pay 40 bucks for a game, now it's 13 bucks more for a microphone, it's reasonable. Besides, i've never seen a voice translator before (sure i've seen voice typing software but that's on pc...), cut the developers some slack children. Go play with your DS mics if you don't like the FUNCTIONALITY this software and mic are going to bring to the PSP. Stop crying... f***ing kids.

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# Guest 2005-09-14 22:23
" TALKMAN will be bundled with special software "

OWNED, BACK TO KINDERGARTEN FOR YOU KIDDIES, NO WONDER YOU BOW TO THE DS

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# Guest 2005-09-14 22:50
23 years old and have a DS plan on getting a PSP soon but can't justify a microphone ad on,should have just built it in this looks as dumb as that Play Yan for game boy.

Some of you act like no matter what Nintendo makes you automatically turn into an ass and whip out the weak "kiddy" tsg if the role was reversed and Nintendo made a PSP like machine and Sony made the DS you would still call it "kiddy" ..grow up.
Both are good handhelds but these ad on things for either system are dumb,just put it in the mahine in the first place for hells sake.

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# Guest 2005-09-14 23:11
Maybe they should hire you to work for their design team. I can't wait to watch them churn out a chunky oversized plastic shoebox JUST so they could include all these cameras and microphones and microwaves or what not. Then you people can't **** about it being a clunky console. Most obviously you picked the easier to reply post, as expected of an infantile mind.

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# Guest 2005-09-14 23:49
this looks interesting but what im more interested in is the mic. I think thats probably what the mic for the new socom for the psp will be like as well

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# Guest 2005-09-14 23:50
pretty cool, but we dotn need these just yet. future games tho... and it should be cheaper. I mean, the ds has a built in mic!! This thing should be like $25 - $30. I dont wanna see the price tag of the PSP camera!!

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# Guest 2005-09-14 23:52
Interesting.

If DS is so kiddy why is it getting resident evil and Xenosaga ^_^

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# Guest 2005-09-14 23:54
I wonder if it will be compatible with Socom.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:02
I read about this game 7 months ago :)

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:07
I'm taking a year out in Osaka in November, but I don't know much Japanese, so this will be really helpful.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:08
The psp is becomming pennys book from inspector gadget!!!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:11
i want PSPSKYPE !!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:20
PSP Google Talk!!!


--Agent Stewie

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:28
Some more detailed information on the PSP-240:

PSP-240

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:29
The PSP is slowly turning into a DS, what next? a touch sensitive layer addon to the PSP screen?

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:31
"Where can I find a Duty-Free store?"

....XD

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# Guest 2005-09-15 00:49
woot woot, psp singstar here i come!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 01:10
"The PSP is slowly turning into a DS, what next? a touch sensitive layer addon to the PSP screen?"

What, so the PSP cant have voice communication? Tell me, is that innovative in the DS? No. Mics have been around forever, its not like the PSP is "turning into the DS", its simply allowing players to voice chat now. Big whoop.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 01:18
Come on boy.. Come on boy sh*t... Good boy!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 01:49
SONY will soon enough, when the PSP is old enough either manufacture USB PSP compatible drives, or allow other companies to do so!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 01:56
This is just great! Can't wait for the European/Russian (Spanish, German, French, Portugese, Italian and Russian) version to hit the streets... This will be SOOOO handy when you go on a holiday... I would like a beer, please. -Una cerveza, por favor.

Hehe... Also would be nice to see if someone could be able to make other USB devices work with the PSP (maybe a GPS or a DVB-T reciver)

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# Guest 2005-09-15 01:59
And yeah, maybe there could come a PSPSkype (In/Out)... Would be nice to trash the old mobile...

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# Guest 2005-09-15 02:17
Woot! I like thi idea! Cant wait to see when they unlock the full ottenltial of the PSP's Wi-Fi, and make it alot faster on line! Then we can use this with the online games! FREAKING SWEET! But i really am wanting a digital camera accessory or a VIDEO CAMERA! That would make the PSP so freaking sweet!

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# Guest 2005-09-15 02:52
you know this could be a sweet idea if someone could make a homebrew software that is like a recorder. i could use it for my classes

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# Guest 2005-09-15 03:14
Pretty nifty, just shows how the psp is becoming more and more useful. Now for a keyboard...(prays)

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# Guest 2005-09-15 03:22
It's just a matter of time to homebrew start to use this new hardware and any other who connects to USB.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 03:26
ummmm 43 days till the keyboard goes on sale CLIK ME FOR INFO

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# Guest 2005-09-15 03:35
does it have to be a cartoon bird as the translator?... how the hell are people going to take you seriosly when some dumb purple bird squaks out "HELP!!! Can you take me the way to the nearest hospital!"

a nice simple UI with no nintendo-like characters woulda been MUCH better.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 04:02
doesn't the psp hace a headset jack...? why would it be usb...?

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# Guest 2005-09-15 04:04
*have, not 'hace' (sorry...)
Doesn't the psp HAVE a headset jack...?

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# Guest 2005-09-15 04:24
This would be a hot ad-on if they could use it to communicate over the Wi-Fi connection as a VoIP application. I think its going in the right direction...Definitely HOT.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 04:34
its gonna suck. big time.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 04:36
I'm supposed to pay $50 for a mic when Nintendo puts one in thier hand held standard ? This is sony telling you to bend over and take it 'cause they are milking you for all the $$$ they can. I hate to see the price of the camera when /if it comes out.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 05:04
Sigh. It's not the MICROPHONE that costs, it's the software, most likely.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 05:07
Yeah and $50 for handheld software is still F^*&% stupid.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 05:32
The DS has the mic as standard, but I don't think it has enough horsepower to run such an application.

It would have been great If I had the TALKMAN during my Japan trip in 2003...Those Japanese realy speak bad English. If at all...

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# Guest 2005-09-15 07:09
" The PSP is slowly turning into a DS, what next? a touch sensitive layer addon to the PSP screen?"

Yeah right, once Sony adds a Web Browser, a media player to watch movies, music player, a picture viewer with the possiblity of an add on camera, a game library that includes titles that appeal to those of us older than 12 including games like GTA, Madden, and Socom, Connectivity thats involves more than raising pikachu animal dots, accessories like movie-watching docks with a remote control, and a large vibrant screen that complements its processor fast enough to handle all the above, once they add all that to the PSP, then it'll be just like a DS. Minus the annoying plastic pen banging against a small screen of course.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 07:56
The DS noobs have one less thing to brag about...

PSP has everything, sweet games and graphics, and homebrew

DS has a touch screen, advance wars, and ****ty graphics

PSP - 1
DS - 0

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# Guest 2005-09-15 11:12
I've been trying to learn japanese on and off for years, that sounds very handy.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 11:15
Id rather have a mic and digital camera included in one device. I know for sure that the digital camera is coming out but I dont understand why they are releasing 2 devices. REleasing a standalone mic device is stupid(not talking about software). A digital camera+mic device will allow games to be way better and it would allow video chat possibility.

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# Guest 2005-09-15 16:33
This was in the official catalouge that was available in japan and on the japanese demo disk along with Gundam Battke Tactics and many other games which havent been mention here...

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# Guest 2005-09-15 19:47
DS already has a microphone and it's not 50$ extra :S

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