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fivetrout:
With electronics having taken great strides in the last few years, what is the popular translator and/or hand held translator I should be thinking about? The thread I found whose last entry was in 2009 likely isn't valid anymore. I need something easy, uncomplicated...voice in---voice out, kind of like a point and shoot camera!

Also along those lines, what about a phone? Don't they need something changed out when abroad, or it is best to just buy one there?

Anyway, with the translator, I figure there will be a lot of ground to cover with her, and I'd rather spend as much time as possible looking into her eyes then down at a tiny screen.

Any help... might help save my sorry lost ass while there too! )))))

Chris

Neil:
I'm unsatisfied with the quality of electronic translation.  My wife owns a cheap thing, and it's generally wrong.

I've been impressed with the quality of Google Translate.  I have it installed on my smartphone (Android) and they recently added the ability to do translation offline (requires a fairly big download).  I've only used my phone to do voice recognition/translation once, and it was a simple phrase, but it translated it perfectly. 

My cell phone provider is Bell Canada, and they offer one month plans for text and wireless internet in China for a reasonable rate, well you decide if it's reasonable:
for $50 you get 50 roaming minutes, 25 megs of data and 50 text messages.  25 megs is pretty small. 

IrishGuy65:
The QQ translator is the best thing that I used.  I try to read things on the 'net with Google translator, but I usually get a more understandable translation if I plug it into QQ.

fivetrout:
What I need is something to use there.

 I recently downloaded the Zeta program from the link here and like the voice, and translation playback to review .

So Neil, can your phone provide a hotspot for your laptop?

Right now I have a cheap tracfone @ about $10 a month, much better than all the years with Verizon making monthly checks that could buy a car! Anyway, China is the same for me as calling across the street and texting too, and only uses the same minutes, however support can't tell me why it isn't working correctly to China? So she texts me just fine...but I have text back to her phone via skype. That won't fly if we get separated there!

Vince G:
A Smart Phone for a Hotspot is costly. Especially how they fool customers. I have noticed they flash on the screen MB (Megabyte) but the announcer says Megabit (Mb) big difference and this causes overages at extra amounts. Ends up double the amount you signed up for.

Google translator seems to be the best on laptop and the phone. The phone app will translate by voice both ways.

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