Customer Reviews

Lingo Direct TT-5500 Euro 5 Talk 5 Language Talking Translator

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I found this to be a pretty good translator. You can fold the screen down to the keyboard which makes it very compact and easy to carry around. They keyboard is very detailed yet easy to figure out and use. I'm also happy with the translations and how easily you can switch between the various languages.

The reasons I knocked off two stars:

1) The sound quality for saying/pronouncing the words/phrases is horrible, barely better than nothing.

2) When you look up words, they supply just on translation for each word for the target foreign language, ignoring the fact that there are often more than one corresponding words.

Oh, the great Lingo TT-5500 Eurotalk, your semi-shiny best friend on all of your travel adventures...if your are single that is. They say this product has over 10,000 phrases you would commonly use while traveling, but I never once found the use for, "What time do you get off work?" or "Are you married?" yet it didn't have something as important as "Where is the bus stop?". That alone gives this thing 2 stars, but to add insult to injury you cannot type in a sentence and it translate it, nooooo too advanced. So you want to translate a sign? Too bad. Instead you try typing in a word and go word for word, but then it gives you a sentence with that word in it, again too hard for Lingo to create something that is useful. And finally the voice that speaks to you so you can "pronounce" it correctly always has a British accent so you never quite get the accent correct of that language, that is if you could hear it over the distortion.

Found this translator to be very helpful, especially when going into smaller villages where few people spoke English. Wouldn't think of doing Spain, France, and Italy without it. Good investment.

lingo 5 5: Special offers techniques found to comply with, easy to use, voice with good pronunciation and clear. I've bought for a blind person, interested in Italian / English translator and is the only suitable for people with such a handicap, as with manual controls.

I was not pleased with the quality of voice or pronunciation used on this device. The translator seemed to know the German language but did not annunciate the words as would be needed for someone trying to learn the language. You had to really listen closely to get the pronunciation and in most cases, I was just guessing at the correct pronunciation. Definitely not a confidence builder. I returned the item for a refund.

Always that I need to find a word the translator never find it but instead the translator try to give another aprox word completly different to the one I am looking for.

It is useless and not a good tool.

I don't recommend it.