Although next to completely useless for me, Seiko Instruments has announced a new Chinese/Japanese dictionary that features actual recorded audio data for pronunciation purposes. Moreoever, the audio data has been compressed using MP3.

If you've ever used an electronic dictionary with some sort of audio feature, chances are, it used some sort of voice synthesis. Voice synthesis obviously isn't as accurate as a native speaker, therefore this is clearly better. I await a Japanese/English version of the same thing.

Seiko Instruments will begin sales of an electronic dictionary installed with 85 reference sources, the "IC DICTIONARY SR-K6000", from December 15. It will be priced at 47,250 yen. That's a lot of money for a dictionary.