Customer Reviews

Radica Girl Tech Voice Recognition Password Journal

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(50)

 

 

I bought this Password Journal 4 for my eight year old daughter. She was very excited, and I thought it was a good idea because it would encourage her to write.

Problem 1) It was very difficult for her to program because you have to speak clearly, and slowly. That was very fustrating for her. Finally working with her, and showing her how to do it, we got it to accept all her "Secret Codes".

Problem 2) You can't whisper to it, so it didn't take long for her brother to hear her, and learn her secret code.

Problem 3) Even though it was so fickle about the way she spoke the secret code, it wasn't fickle at all about who entered it. Her brother's voice worked just as well to open it, and it turned out my deeper voice openned it too. I could say a word that was close to the original and it would open.

My daughter tried using it by hiding it in her room, but she quickly lost interest in it, and now it's on the bottom of her toy box.

We bought this for our daughter last Christmas, and it was the worst toy we've ever given her. She recorded her pasword dozens and dozens of times, it NEVER would open. We just kept resetting the password, stii the same problem. She ended up using the voice button from her barbie walkie-talkie, and even then, it would only open some of the time. She got SO mad, frustrated, and upset. I felt horrible that I gave her such a crappy toy that upset her like that. It, like many others I'm sure, is living at the bottem of her cavernous toy box, never to be seen (or heard from!) again. Don't waste your money unless you enjoy that look of desperate frustration on your childs face

My daughter begged for this toy for her 8th birthday, and is completely frustrated and let down. We have not been able to get it to open without resetting it because it will not recognize her simple one word password. We haven't been able to set the time, date, or alarm because it doesn't seem to be able to focus. It's been educational, in the way that it teaches her not to believe the stuff she sees in a commercial. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!

I am in absolute LUV with this journal. It is really trustworthy in a smart way. Here's a tip, if it doesn't work on the first try:

RESET THE PASSWORD!

If you choose your own password, it opens to that one. It ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS opens to my whisper. My brothers and sister know the password, and it doesn't even open to THEIR whispers! It even does that on LOW privacy! Imagine what high privacy would be like!

Plus, once you close the journal, it says, "Your journal is safe with me, see you later!" That's so kind! LOL if you know what I mean. Overall,

THIS TOY IS G-R-E-A-T!

I have this and I hate it. I have to use the same tone everytime and if it doesnt work I like have to pry it open.

Hi im 13, and i wrote another review on this journal. One thing i forgot to mention that really bothers me about this journal is the space to keep your pens and pencils. What bothers me is that it is to short of a space to keep a gel pen, because you would have to keep a gel pen wiuthout the lid. Pencils dont work unless they are shorter and older. Because if you put in a new pencil, it wouldnt fit. And a nice cute little feather pen?? Nope, the feathers get squashed in the diagonal crossover. So what does fit in this journal???

I dont know!!!

Hey! Wait a minuite!!! I do know!!! The jam n' shread pen!!! By Girl Tech. This journals pen compartment was FORMED EXCATLY to fit that pen. But the pen itself costs $9.99! What kind of TOY pen costs 10 bucks! Not one that Im going to buy. Ok, thanks for reading and i hope this helps.

This diary is so good that my friend, Michelle, bought it.It even has a secert compartment(Don't tell anyone!).I think this is even better than Pssword journal 3 because this journal has clips for pictues, notes, ect. When Pasword Journal 3 only has pages. Oh I forgot to say that PJ3(Pssword journal 3) has no light.

I got the gift set because it was 80% off(was 50 then 10) And i read all the other reviews and i did think it wasn't going to be as good as they advertized because of the reviews. I was WRONG! It really isnt as bad as you would think. I only have an older brother and he really doesnt care what i write about so i mostly wanted it because of the other features. The pad doesnt have that many pages and you do have to speak very clearly with no backround noises when you say the password but overall this is a pretty good toy.

This was number one on my 7 year old daughter's Christmas list. We were both really excited for her to try it. It was a huge disappointment. We could not get it to work. It became very frustratin for her, and me as well. We even took it back and exchanged it for another because we thought it was defective. We had the same problem with the second one, so we returned it and got our money back. My daughter was heart broken. Take my advise and spend your money on a nice diary with a lock.

This thing is a total rip-off. I would have given it a nagative 100 stars if I could ( or in reality, 0). I was 10 when I got this. I thought then it would solve my problems to my brother always breaking my locks on the old diaries. Also, I thought the features were cool, I was dead wrong! This is why:

1. You have to speak loud and cleary, which gives your brother a good hint on what your one word password is. I couldn't even set the time and date right!

2. The light rarely works.

3. A waste of 20 bucks!

4. It responds to ANY voice as long as you say the right password. Even my dads!

5. It kept me awake all night due to trying to program it.

6. The actual paper is as thin as tissue paper and only 20 pages.

7. I had to return it, and it took them forever to accept it!

I could go on and on about this, but it will take 4ever. Get a diary that has a combo on it instead, there're cheaper, and your brother can't break it.