Ectaco EF400T English-French Bidirectional Talking Dictionary

The pronunciation in French is not as clear as it should be.

Took it to Paris. It is so difficult to actually use in the field that I just left it there.

This is a terrible product. The electronic voice is not understandable at all. The device is much smaller than it looks in its picture. The keyboard is tiny and difficult to use. The product is not worth the price by any means.I returned the product to Ace Photo within hours of opening it. Since Ace charged me a 15% restocking fee, I literally paid about $31.00 just to open and inspect the product. (I also paid another $6 or 7 to ship it back.)I then wrote a bad review about the order. Ace called asking me to remove the bad review of the order. At first I refused, but then Ace promised to refund the remaining $31.00 so I removed the negative comment from the order. I now find that Ace only refunded me $20.00 of the promised $31.00. Of course removal of the negative review of the order was "final," which means I cannot reinstate my negative comments about the order. The next time I will "see the money" before I remove a negative comment.

I used the Partner EF400T on my trip to Paris last week and just wanted to say that it was perfect - hence the name `Perfect Partner'! The French are not known for speaking English easily (even if they can speak it perfectly well) and this little gadget saved my skin on a more than a couple of occasions. Being as `nationalistic' as they are, I thought it would be better to keep my mouth shut :) I entered what I wanted to say and it actually spoke it out right away. The people I used it on where much more receptive to the device than me But without it I think my trip would have been sooooo bad.