20 Language Voyager III Translator (LIN-TTV-3G)

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• Sold Individually

Customer Reviews:

Ready to hit the road! [Posted on 2007-03-30]
I am thrilled with the Lingo Voyager,it has 20 different languages. I am going on a cruise an hitting 5 different countries, it will be cool to have this use.

Poor Audio Quality (Revised) [Posted on 2007-07-26]
This is the first "talking" translator I have purchased. I have been using another Lingo translator for 8 years and have been generally pleased with it.

The Voyager 3 has a small increase in available vocabulary and uses the same entry modes as the previous version. Lookup of a word seems a bit quicker. These are all positives.

However, the unit I received had the volume control turned all the way up and when I processed my first entry, the audio was very loud and extremely distorted. I immediately reduced the volume to the lowest level at which I could hear the word being pronounced, but the distortion was still present although somewhat reduced making the audio difficult to understand. I don't know whether this problem occurs on all units of this model or just the one I purchased. I plan to return this one under warrantee and see what happens.

I would recommend that prospective purchasers stick with non-talking versions of Lingo products. If you do buy one make sure that the volume is all the way down before powering up the unit for the first time. The initial excessive volume setting may have damaged my unit on first use.

The day Lingo received my warrantee card & complaint letter, a representative called on the phone and offered me either a full refund or warrantee service. I am returning the unit for service, but wanted to post about Lingo's concern and quick response.

Received the unit back yesterday with a note from the technician that said, "We checked the sound and its the same on all TTV's." However, the audio does seem improved a bit. Although still present, it is not objectionable on all languages except Chinese. (Chinese is an inflected language and the proper tones on the vowels is important.) My wife, a native Chinese speaker says she can now understand words pronounced by the female speaker, but still not by the male speaker.

I would now upgrade the rating to 3-stars.

Actual Product Review [Posted on 2008-04-17]
This is a review about the product, not the company's fix it policy or my exciting trip. However I can make it short and sweet for you.

This product will act as a glorified talking dictionary with 20 languages. Similar to a dictionary you must input words individually however if you are getting this product for more general purposes it does come with a common phrase data base.

The talking part of this dictionary is not great either. However, if you are a fan of listening to Stephen Hawkings voice then you will love the speach of this dictionary. This means that the recorded voice is robotic in nature which does not bode well with asian languages that revolve around fluxuation.

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