Talking Mice in the works, really?

I thought twitter was big deal, guess they're working on how to make animals talk, check out this paragraph from nytimes.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for the human version. Svante Paabo, in whose laboratory the mouse was engineered, promised several years ago that when the project was completed, “We will speak to the mouse.”

Snippet from New York Times article from science section.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/science/29mouse.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes