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Lingo Voyager 3 Talking Translator (TTV-3)

Lingo Voyager 3 Talking Translator (TTV-3)
by Lingo Corporation

List Price: ~~$249.95~~
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Manufacturer: Lingo Corporation
Model: TTV-3
Color: As Shown
Product features:

Translates and talks over 46,000 travel phrases and translates over 400,000 words
8 Line Display with Backlight
Voice /memo recorder
8 Travel Games: Sudoku, Kakuro, Decoder, Mines, Number Slide, Totem Pole, 24, Number Puzzle
8 Metric and 8 currency conversions, world time clock with alarm

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Customer Review: SurfCityDoug
Summary: 2 Stars

I purchased this product through Amazon when it first came out for the full retail price - it may be a better deal at today's reduced price, but I am generally sorry I purchased the unit and believe I could have purchased something else more suitable. The unit was delivered by Ace Photo - Definitely DO NOT recommend them! I contacted Amazon to let them know my unit didn't work correctly and they sent an email to Ace on my behalf asking them to contact me - they didn't. I sent an email directly to them - no response!

The audio on my unit is virtually unintelligable - even in English (and I speak some Spanish and cannot understand that either) The speech feature on this unit is worthless - very poor quality tinny speaker. Forget it if you don't know the language - you'd never understand the word even with the earpeice.

The unit is in a cheap plastic case (which doesn't appear very durable). I expected for almost $300, that it would be metal or at least somewhat solid.

The setup is confusing and the instructions were not written by a native English speaker. I am not sure my unit is functioning correctly, but can't really figure it out because of the confusing instructions.

The unit doesn't stay in the leather case and will come out easily. There are also pockets in the case but the Lingo fits so snuggly, they really aren't useable. I tried to put the "quick instructions" sheet in the carrier and even it doesn't fit. It's a nice case with a magnetic strap that will go a long ways in protecting the fragile unit though.

On the plus side and the only reason I didn't give this unit 1 star is that it does have a lot of words in all languages and although somewhat cumbersome to operate (and you can't even put 2 of your own words together - all phrases are preset). It has helped me in several situations where I needed a word or a phrase. The phrases I might are also not easy to use - you have to scroll through them to find what you want. However one very positive note is they are linked to a word you want to look up - that's how I ususally start - by translating one word.

Bottom line - This is a very cheaply built unit. I would NOT recommend this unit to a friend. You can get better for less money.

UPDATE... I just returned from South America and am downgrading this product to 1 star and would go 0 stars if they had a catagory. You cannot find tenses - try to find "went" or "was" in Spanish. The vocab is very limited.

It also eats batteries even when switched off. They last about 3 days. I started removing them and only putting them in when I wanted to check for a word.

Also on the speaking part. I have a freind who grew up in China and speaks limited English listen to various words. I didn't show him the word or tell him beforehand but he could not understand one word out of about 20 we tried and he has been speaking Chinese for over 40 years as his first language. If you were trying to have someone listen to a word because you could not pronounce it - it would also be wortless. Again.... don't waste your money. I found a little Berlitz Spanish dictionary much more useful on my trip.

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Description of Lingo Voyager 3 Talking Translator (TTV-3)

The Lingo Voyager 3 multi language translator translates into foreign language characters and shows you phonetically how to pronounce the characters in your own language, and then pronounces them for you at the touch of a button! You no longer have to learn a foreign alphabet in order to converse in that language! Translates: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

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