Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE7 Talking Travel Translator for 7 International Languages

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 0.7 x 3.9 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001JQLHS8
• Item model number: ENTOURAGE7
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #1 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Foreign Language Translators
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer Talking Pocket Translator With 7 Cross-Translated International Languages and 4900 Travel Related Phrases
Travel with this translator and ditch the dictionary! Save valuable time and luggage space if you’re going on the trip of a lifetime or travelling on important business. Bulky travel dictionaries weigh you down while sightseeing and computer translating software is inconvenient to access when you really need it. The answer to these travel accessories is an Innovations award winning electronic translator that is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand (smaller than most PDAs) and contains over 4,900 travel related phrases for seven international languages! Eight conversational categories allow you to find your desired phrase quickly, and you have the choice of letting the translator display or speak any phrase you choose. If you are shy or unsure of the pronunciation, you can simply let the translator speak the phrase and communicate for you. Don’t ever get stuck flipping through pages every time you want to order dinner or ask the cost of admission.

Cross translates 12 international languages. Save and Recall Phrases Quickly. CES Innovations Honoree. Speaks and displays phrases! Home/world time display so you are always on time!

Graphical icons identify each conversational category. Stylish Design. View the translator anytime of day thanks to the LCD Back light. Save important numbers to the built-in phone book. Alarm clock to help keep you on track.

Multiple Languages – One Translator
Communicate confidently around the world – the ENTOURAGE7 cross-translates seven international languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Get the perfect companion for airport stopovers, backpacking across Europe, or traveling to multiple countries on the same trip. Many cities have different ethnic areas, so you can spend the day shopping Little Italy and have dinner in Chinatown without any worries of language barriers! Simply press the "Change Language" button on the translator to switch languages whenever necessary, and you can always have the translator speak for you.

Quickly Find the Phrase You Need
The ENTOURAGE7 contains over 4900 travel related phrases and keeps them organized in categories so you can find them quickly and easily. Eight conversational categories have their own button so you can easily find your desired or related phrases. The included categories are General Speech, Emergency, Entertainment, Sightseeing, Direction, Restaurants, Transport, and Hotel & Accommodation.

Easily Save and Recall Frequently Used Phrases
Do you find yourself regularly asking “How much is it?” or “How do I get to…” ? The ENTOURAGE7 has a feature that allows you to press a button to add phrases to a list of frequently used sentences. Recalling saved phrases is just as easy - simply press the “Favorites” button to display your customized list.

Sleek and Compact Design Saves You Luggage Space
The design of the ENTOURAGE7 goes against the grain of traditional rectangular flip open foreign language translators. It eliminates the clumsy operation of traditional translator’s QWERTY keyboard with an intuitive category-based navigation system. Its ergonomic style makes the unit easy to operate with only one hand and the buttons are soft to the touch.

Award Winning Design
ENTOURAGE7 eliminates the clumsy operation of traditional translator’s QWERTY keyboard with an intuitive category-based navigation system. This contemporary concept and design gained a 2009 CES Innovations Honoree status. Innovations Design and Engineering Awards recognize the most innovative consumer electronics (CE) products in the industry's hottest product categories. Innovations Awards have become a hallmark for the best designed products in consumer technology.

Translate and Communicate Day and Night!
Unlike paper dictionaries and travel guides, this translator can help you communicate in many diverse situations. There’s no need to worry about trying to communicate with your taxi driver while in the back of the dark cab, the ENTOURAGE7 has a backlit screen so that you will never be restricted by your location. Take walks through the park at dusk, order drinks at a night club, or ask if you can take photos at the concert without having to search for light.

See and Hear Your Translation
If you aren’t sure of the pronunciation of a specific phrase, this translator can help! You can be sure you are pronouncing foreign words correctly since this device speaks the phrases aloud. The LCD screen displays the translated phrase while the built-in speaker pronounces it for you. The ENTOURAGE7 also has a built-in headphone jack so you can hear clearly in busy areas or avoid disturbing others while in quiet situations (headphones not included). Being able to hear and see the phrases will help you blend in with the locals so you don’t look like a tourist.

Electronic Address book Stores Your Home and Travel Contacts
You can use the electronic phone book to add new contacts you meet on your trip or keep track of the phone numbers of hotels, embassies, and other important places. Know that your information is safe by protecting your data with the password protection function.

Home and World Time Display
This translator will even help you know when to call home! Keep track of time zone differences by using the home and world time display feature. By setting a home time, you can use the world time display to see the time and calendar for 24 worldwide cities and time zones.

Built-In Alarm Clock Helps You Stick To Your Travel Schedule
The ENTOURAGE7 also has a built-in alarm clock that can be set and reset as needed, eliminating the need to pack a second device to use as an alarm clock. This translator is the perfect pocket-sized companion that will help you communicate and stick to your busy schedule!







ENTOURAGE7 Key Features

• Cross-Translates for 7 international languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
• Over 4,900 phrases in eight conversational categories: General Speech, Emergency, Entertainment, Sightseeing, Direction, Restaurants, Transport, and Hotel & Accommodation
• Backlit LCD screen allows you to use the translator in dark settings
• Display the translated phrase, have the built-in speaker pronounce the phrase for you, or listen with the privacy of your own headphones
• Sleek, stylish, compact, and easy to operate with only one hand!

What’s in the Box

• 1 Pocket Translator
• 2 Lithium Batteries in Unit
• Phrase List in English
• Instruction Manual
• 1 Year Warranty
• 1 Instruction Manual
• 24/7 Lifetime Customer Support

Product Description

Don¿t waste valuable time or luggage space if you¿re going on the trip of a lifetime or travelling on important business. Bulky travel dictionaries weigh you down while sightseeing and computer translating software is inconvenient to access when you really need it. The answer to these travel accessories is an electronic translator that is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and contains travel related phrases for seven international languages! Eight conversational categories allow you to find your desired phrase quickly, and you have the choice of letting the translator display or speak any phrase you choose. Don¿t get stuck flipping through pages every time you want to order dinner or ask the cost of admission - travel with this translator and ditch the dictionary.Communicate confidently in multilingual countries ¿ The ENTOURAGE7 cross-translates 7 international languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. This translator is the perfect companion for airport stopovers, backpacking across Europe, or traveling to multiple countries on the same trip. Many cities have different ethnic areas, so you can spend the day shopping Little Italy and have dinner in Chinatown without any worries of language barriers.The ENTOURAGE7 contains more than 4900 travel related phrases and keeps them organized in categories so you can find them quickly and easily. Each category has its own button so you can easily find your desired or related phrases. The included categories are General Speech, Emergency, Entertainment, Sightseeing, Direction, Restaurants, Transport, and Hotel & Accommodation. If you find yourself repeatedly using the same phrases, you can press a button to add them to a list of frequently used sentences.

Customer Reviews

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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a travelers best friend, December 23, 2008

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Margaux Paschke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE7 Talking Travel Translator for 7 International Languages (Office Product)

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You really cannot beat the value for the price. Similar models in the same price range do not work as well as this one based on my personal comparisons done at a store. My favorite is the top of the line Franklin but at $100+ this one will do just fine for the casual traveler.

It sticks to 7 languages ( English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese) instead of the 12 some similar models offer. It certainly is small enough to make it easy to carry around. The talking function is great when you are not sure of pronunciation and the best feature. The intuitive keypad makes it a breeze to use without instructions over the higher end models. It also has a backlit screen for easy night viewing. Another plus is pretty good translations since the German and French phrases were tested and found to be accurate. They even include features I have never used (alarm and ability to make a contact list) that make it look like they thought of everything.

Know that this pocket translator just provides common phrases. They are organized under 8 categories (directions, restaurants, transport, hotel, general speech, emergency, entertainment and sightseeing) for quick picks and great for BASIC communication. It does not provide a word for word translation so if that is what you need, then stick to more detailed phrase books or high end translators. There are 4900 phrases included and it has managed to get my point across whenever I used it. The only problem - it cannot translate back. As long as the answers can be gestured or drawn down on paper, you are good to go.

Bottom line, it can easily replace the small phrase books and provides the extra bonus of speaking the phrases for you. Instead of taking a couple of phrase books (if you are going to more then one place on your vacation like a cruise) - then this little gem will become your best friend.

47 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Ready For Prime Time, January 14, 2009

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Joe MacBu - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE7 Talking Travel Translator for 7 International Languages (Office Product)

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I was excited to try out this item since it has Mandarin Chinese. I've been teaching myself Chinese for a year and try to practice by going to the Chinatown in Flushing NY, where Mandarin is the predominant tongue (as opposed to Cantonese in most other Chinatowns).

The heart of this translation unit is a set of pre-programmed phrases geared toward the casual short-term visitor. There are dedicated buttons for categories such as restaurants, transportation, etc. Within each category is about a dozen or two phrases that may or may not prove helpful to you. A bonus is that it will pronounce the phrases via the built in speaker (3 volume levels) or headphone jack.

The main disadvantage of this unit is that you're limited to whatever phrases the programmers decided to include. Some phrases are certainly helpful, such as asking for the bill, making reservations and asking directions. However, many phrases are completely useless from a culture-specific view. Sure, asking what type of cheeses are available is appropriate in Italy or France, but very out of place in China (where they abhor cheese). They could have easily changed the cheeses to tofus and it would have been more relevant. This was a major disappointment for me because I felt like they did not do any research into what phrases might actually be useful to translate into Chinese. They basically picked a set of "universal" phrases and used them for all the languages. The same comments apply to the Japanese phrase pack as well - though they do tend to eat a little bit of cheese.

Frankly, even when using the phrases in one of the Romance languages, they are rather boring. No, I'd rather not ask what type of typical American dishes are served when traveling to a foreign nation. Those types of travelers can go to a McDonald's just about anywhere in the world and do fine without a translator.

The thing I liked the most about this unit was the Chinese pronunciations. I thought they were spot-on and incredibly helpful for a complex tonal language. As a beginner, I find myself hitting the "talk" button frequently so that I can pay close attention to the tones. It's the next best thing to having a native speaker friend who is willing to repeatedly pronounce the same stupid word for you. Most of the restaurants I visit in Flushing don't have English-speaking staff. With this unit, I can pick a phrase (from the limited choices) and play it to them instead of butchering it myself. That's the coolest thing ever, especially when they smile back because they've completely understood you. It breaks the ice.

Unfortunately, I can't give similar praise to the Japanese pronunciations. Most of the phrases sound like they're spoken by a native Chinese speaker struggling to pronounce Japanese. It makes the Japanese sound very harsh and syncopated. What was a shocker to me was that many of the English words have not been translated to Japanese. Rather, they pretend to have translated it to Japanese, but it is still the same English word. Someone got super lazy. For instance, the Japanese pronunciation of "sparkling wine" is "spaaaa-ARC-kay-ling viiiNE." Are you seriously kidding me? It sounds like a native Chinese-speaking robot.

I did not bother to test out the German or Romance languages extensively. The pronunciations in them sound a bit better and the list of phrases are definitely designed for visitors to the Euro countries.

By the way, the interface is pretty lame. I don't mind the low res text, but the phrases scroll painfully slowly. The buttons are not intuitive. I still haven't figured out how to set the time on this unit. It's rather aggravating to use.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with Functionality for the Traveler, December 25, 2008

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Phyllis Staff (Dallas, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nyrius Global ENTOURAGE7 Talking Travel Translator for 7 International Languages (Office Product)

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Several years ago, I spent a couple of months working in Paris. I was a non-French speaker. What I would have given for the Nyrius Talking Translator!

Nyrius has programmed in almost 5000 phrases to help you communicate in a variety of situations. You can ask about costs and prices, schedule excursions and side trips, go to the theater, book a hotel, understand a menu and order a meal, and buy tickets for boats, planes, or any other mode of transportation you might require. It's all in there.

The most entertaining phrases ("I would like to speak to a lawyer" or "I would like to speak to a woman.") require that you are able to converse more fluently and understand the reply of a native speaker, so it helps to have at least minimal familiarity with the language before you go. Nevertheless, this tiny translator will help you speak so it can be understood. Just listen to the spoken words as you read the translated sentence. Repeat what you've heard, and you're able to communicate at a rudimentary level.

Nyrius makes three versions of their translators, all surprisingly inexpensive. The one I have includes seven languages:

English
French
Spanish
German
Mandarin Chinese
Italian
Japanese

You choose your native language from the list and the language you want translated. The translator will speak a phrase you choose in your native language and in the language you want translated, so you don't even have to say the phrase yourself.

Power is provided by two lithium batteries. I could not find an estimate on how long these batteries would last an average traveler, so I will take a couple of extras along on any international trip - insurance, you know.

In addition to the translating functions, my Nyrius has an alarm clock, a light to back light the screen, and an address book. That's a lot of features for a translator that's about the size of a package of cigarettes.

What else would I like to see included? A wrist strap so it's not quite so easy to lose would be nice, but in all in all, this translator is a tiny wonder.

I'm impressed. And I can't wait to try it out in China! Good job, Nyrius.

Five stars