Franklin KID-1240 Children's Talking Dictionary and Spell Corrector
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Customer Review: Served the purpose.
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this for an adult ESL student who has never been to formal school, is just beginning to learn English and needed a speaking electronic dictionary. It is much less expensive than the adult version available in the USA (although you can get cheaper ones in China, or possibly on the used goods market) and has a vocabulary of 44000 words. It worked well for her and satisfied her needs, and probably will for a while to come. For kids, it seems like a useful resource till their vocabulary demands a more advanced resource, but hopefully by then they would be reading, writing and speaking fluently enough. For a more advanced ESL learner though I would recommend the Franklin Collegiate Dictionary; its much more extensive.Customer Review: Too much of robotic accent
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought a Franklin HW-1216 as a gift for someone and was impressed with it, except for its lousy build quality. When I read that this one is a talking dictionary, I bought it for my daughter. It's same as Franklin HW-1216 except that it has a built-in speaker. Unfortunately, word pronounciations are too robotic with a good mix of asian accent. Read out is painful to listen to and punctuations are horrible. Extra money you pay for this unit over HW-1216 to get the talking part is pretty useless or rather counterproductive. If I have to buy one more I would buy HW-1216. If a product is marketed for the use of 6-11 year olds it should be built appropriately. I do not think it will last more than an year or so.Customer Review: Lousy Quality/Defective
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this for my twin daughters' birthday. We couldn't get it to work for more than 5 minutes. It kept getting stuck (we couldn't even turn it on or off to clear it). No wonder there is a reset button on the back of the unit as this was the only way to solve the problem. Also the speaker sometimes crackled. Perhaps there was a short in the unit; hence, all the problems. The voice sounded terrible and very mechanical. As my daughter played tic-tac-toe, it kept saying 'my turn' every time it was the computer's turn. It sounded really weird and annoying. I've asked for a full refund. I'm looking for something of more quality. Too bad, it looked like a really cute product.Customer Review: good tool
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this device because my daughter's school specializing in learning disabilities recommended it. It's deffinitely for the younger crowd since it doesn't have a lot of "big" words. It has a choppy computer voice-which is fine since my kids have not complained about it even though I don't care for it much. You can put any made up spelling word into it and it will give you choices of words to pick from that will be spoken to you. I found one word it didn't recognize- cake. It found "cakes", but not "cake" when I put it in as my son spelled it-kack. If your kid has spelling problems I highly recommend this product, especially if you are tired of spelling everything for them.Customer Review: Spellchecker
Summary: 5 Stars
I teach preschool through 3rd grade in a small public school. My students are often frustrated when trying to use the spellchecking function of the word processor on our computers. It often does not recognize their phonetic spellings. But this product is designed to do just that, and the speaking feature tells them which is the correct word, without any adult intervention. It definitely fills a gap for young writers. I have also recommended it to parents of kids who need extra spelling practice. They can input weekly spelling lists or any other words, and their children can practice them painlessly with the games. It is very affordable for both the school and parents.