Wasn’t there a Simpsons like this?

From Yahoo’s AP feed:

TOKYO – After selling 300,000 pet-lovers on the Bowlingual gadget that
supposedly translates a dog’s bark into human language, a toymaker hopes to
parlay that success into a new hit product: Meowlingual.

The cat-shaped machine set to go on sale in Japan in November translates
meows and purrs into human phrases such as “I can’t stand it,” although
exact wording hasn’t been decided yet, Tokyo-based Takara Co. said
Wednesday.