Talkman

PlayStation exclusive

Thanks to TalkMan - and a large blue multilingual bird called Max PSP (PlayStationPortable) is on a mission to break the ice and tear down those barriers that keep nationalities apart. 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.

Released: 17 November 2005
Platforms: PlayStation Portable
Genres: Machine translation
Developers: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Publishers: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Educational
Age ratings: ESRB E

About

Talkman is an edutainment video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. It utilizes voice-activated translation software that operates in four languages, Japanese, English, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese. The name "Talkman" is a reference to Sony's Walkman line of portable audio products. It was released in Japan on November 17, 2005, and in America on August 5, 2008 (via the PlayStation Store), as Talkman Travel.

99 each. Available packs are: Paris (French), Rome (Italian), and Tokyo (Japanese).