SALMANS Scan Talker Smart Translation Device Pen with Bluetooth/Wi-Fi | Android with 3.46 Inch Touch Screen (Supports 112 Languages) | Scan Text and Translate | Speak and Translate

Quite expensive for what it does.And it doesn't do that great of a job.Can only read text to you if it's connected to the internet. The text-to-speech voice sounds robotic not sure if there is a way to update it.And I think Google's translator is easier to work than this. I mean you take your phone with you everywhere and it has its own built-in camera and it can take picture of text and translate it to any language. Sorry I'm going to have to give a thumbs down on this product 👎👎👎

UPDATE: 4-26-2021I'm leaving the text of the original review below for reference, most of it is good, but I panned the major part of the verbal translation function cause I could not set the languages properly. It was set on Spanish, and I was trying to do Japanese. I thought like scanning text, it would auto recognize, voice but it does not it needs to be set. I wrote the seller, and they emailed me an updated manual, the test product had the old one, and it gave very little information. Sometimes thats not a problem, but setting the languages on this is not easy. Even after looking at the new manual, it took several minutes of trial and error to get to the settings screen. That part of the interface is still in sore need of improvement. You have to slide drag from a dark portion of the screen to get to the settings page for aural translations.Since this was one of the major features of use for this device, without it, I deducted 3 stars total. Now that I can work it I'll give back three. If the interface is improved with later software updates or newer models. I might be persuaded to give back the last star, but right now, it's not been earned. As for the verbal translation. I don't think it's 99 percent even web connected, more like 80-90 in my testing. It does not like my name. I tried to say "Watashi wa Court" (meaning: "I'm Court" in Japanese ) the result was like "I'm Cool" or some other variants. Sure it may be right about that, but it's not what I said. It responds better to Japanese names. I said "Shinjuku Eki", and it did get Shinjuku Station in the translation to English, and it got the phrase I might use first on a trip to Japan. "Eigo ga wakari masu ka" The romaji phrase for "do you understand the English language". The translation for that was spot on, so I tried "Nihongo-ga Sukoshi wakari masu" Which would be my response to a Japanese person asking if I understand Japanese. It basically means I understand a "little", and it got that spot on as well. I tried a number of other phrases, and did very well. Not really 99 percent, but my voice may be the cause for missing some of the phrases. Would be a useful tool to use as a translator. I could use a bit better volume out of the device though, in a busy area with a lot of background noise would be difficult to hear without using the headphones. (Below is my original review, most is still valid), except now I understand how to set (however difficult) the languages for the verbal translation. I tested it as the default setting in Spanish too, it worked well for the few words and phrases I know.ORIGINAL REVIEW:I've been an avid reader of Japanese manga and anime for years. I've taken multiple classes in Japanese language at a local university in continuing education. I've been looking for a device like this to take on a future visit to Japan. This device has some really nice features, but (and not for lack of trying), there are some things I can't get to work, or due to a lack of user documentation or user manual, I can't get to work or are just buggy. I will detail the good and the bad from my attempt at comprehensive testing.THE GOODThe text scanner translator function worked really well. I scanned phrases from a book that had the phonic (romaji) translation, both the English translation and English text. The voice for the Japanese phrase was clear and understandable for both Japanese and English sound. The scanners translation did not always translate to English the same as the book, however it almost always got the meaning correct, and sometimes I suspected did a better more understandable English translation.As I said, the sound was good as spoken, and it worked well with the included head phones which the port efficiently makes multi-use. That is, it (using the included cable) will one, charge the unit, two connect the included wired earbuds, and three, connect to a computer or smart device to transfer data (MP3 files text files, pictures etc.). Further, on the sound, with or without the head phones it plays MP3 files clearly.Data transfer, I needed to test the MP3 playing capability so I connected it to my laptop. The meager page that serves as a manual seemed to suggest to only use the cable that came with it for data transfers and charging, so I connected this to my laptop via the USB cable. It connects to the device with a USB C connection, and to the source with a typical USB A connection. Device was recognized as a data drive by the Dell PC laptop, and I transferred an MP3 file to play on the device with no issues. Reading the memory for the device, I was disappointed to see it only had 3.84 GB of internal shared storage, and only 2.5 GB of that was free. Given the cost of 16-32 GB USB memory sticks today at about ten bucks or less, I thought that since there is not a memory expansion slot on this device they should have given it a bit more.Screen was bright, and the touch feature worked well. There are 10 virtual buttons to go to the various features. These include scanning, translation, recording, and a settings button for the clock. To turn on various modes, connect to the internet etc. Sometimes, little help screens come up to tell you how to swipe, but little more than that. There's a battery indicator that shows percentage of charge. The screen has a light blue background, and each of the buttons, has a different color for easy recognition as well as the function in white text beneath it. I've seen some of the other units online, and this HD screen really sets it apart. When scanning the text whether Japanese characters is easy to read, and has to be in HD, as there are not blocky looking characters, they are small, but very detailed.The best function by far seems to be the scan translation, it required no selection to realize it was scanning Japanese, and it duplicated the Japanese characters scanned then spoke the Japanese. It then on the bottom section of the screen, detailed the English text, and spoke that as well. Nice, that alone will make this a fairly useful device.Battery, in use this seems to run down fairly fast in roughly 10-15 minutes of intermittent use it dropped 10 percentage points in power capacity. I suspect the HD screen is the main culprit, and it could probably be helped somewhat by setting the brightness down under the setting button.WIFI, I was able to connect to my WIFI, but there was a minor issue, If you have a PW with a number or certain characters in it using the key to change to that entry screen will clear the text you entered. I tried this about 5 times to make sure I wasn't fat fingering the virtual keys or something. I finally tried it with hitting the alt key first, and that worked, it didn't clear the text, so I could append the number on the end of my PW, and it connected quickly to my WIFI.According to the meager manual page, it will do Japanese, Chinese and English offline, so I was happy about that since I really wanted it for Japanese.There is a dictionary, but it's only for Chinese and English, none of the other languages are currently supported. Its kind of interesting, and great for Chinese speakers or English speakers learn in Chinese, scan an English word and it will give the definition in English and then Chinese, then create a number of phrases in both English and Chinese of the various meanings to illustrate the definition. Nice.Intelligent recording, a nice feature to record lectures and such, you select and start a recording strangely or maybe because this may have been made for the Chinese market first, as you talk or sing into it, it first displays as you go a Chinese Kanji representation of what you are saying. Then it translates that into English. Maybe it's the Chinese aural filter, but it does not seem to understand other languages here so English it the only output even if you didn't speak it for the recorder. I said in good Japanese, "excuse me, do you understand English?" It should have said in romaji text: "Sumimasen, Ego-ga wakarimasu-ka?" What it did say was kind of funny: "Show you my Sam, a good guy will call you my sky". I'm not really complaining here, every device has limits, and it seems to understand in the recording English speakers well enough, but it would not be good to record a lecture given in a Japanese class.THE BADAs many good things as this has, there are a number of bad things, or at least things I can't seem to figure out without a decent manual. Thats the first thing, I searched all over the Web looking for a PDF manual that might detail how to use this properly for some features. They could have provided a website in the literature, but they did not. I put a question on the product page asking for one, since I'll be one of the few early reviewers they might ask me by email to answer my own question, but this is likely one for the maker.I mentioned lack of memory for upgrades or other storage is very limited, and given the low cost of that memory these days they should have provided larger internal storage, plus or at least alternatively an expansion slot for some kind of memory card.You'll note I didn't mention Bluetooth in the "Good" section and there is a reason, while I could see my Smart TV, one year old Smart Phone, my Dell Laptop names all in the device list for Bluetooth devices, it said it was incompatible, or just unable to connect with any of these devices. Color me disappointed. I have a lot of Bluetooth speakers, and I'll start trying to connect to those next, but I think the connection mechanism is a little flawed cause these three I mentioned will all connect to one another, and a number of other devices easily, so there should be nothing wrong with them.The big one I really wanted to work, as I plan to go to Japan sometime after this Pandemic winds down, the aural translation or Phonetic as it's described on the button. Unlike the easy text language recognition speaking in Japanese (and I do pronounce most things correctly as per Google translate). It kept translating my Japanese speech into Italian or Spanish or some other language. It sometimes did the same for my English language. I repeated, spoke slowly, I even played some Japanese speakers online to speak phrases in Japanese, and it either couldn't understand or would mistranslate them as well. With no manual, I know of no way to tell it what language will be input, but the non textual mechanism it has is badly flawed.The device is expensive and has an internal battery that should only be changed by an authorized center. Like the iPhone, you can't swap out a battery for this device. While I suppose it won't be charged as often as a cellular phone, so it may last for years and years. That said like a phone in regular use a typical cell phone rechargeable is good for about 300 or so charges before it starts to significantly decline. They make automotive grade Lithium batteries that will charge 1000 times or more, but I doubt this has that, I have only one device that has that and it's a Bluetooth waterproof speaker. I have about 100 devices that don't. Unlike smart phones at least for now I know of no authorized places to get a battery changed on this and it's not an inexpensive device, so it's not your typical throw a way like a 20 dollar smart phone.CONCLUSIONSHonestly, I'll likely get some use out of this device as is, it will do well to help me translate parts of my textbooks where they expect me to be able to read the Japanese characters, and don't provide any help sometimes. Maybe younger people with better memories will be forced to remember everything better without the crutch of the translation underneath, or just look it up. If I make my trip, I suspect this will allow me to read Japanese menus, newspapers and magazines. Unfortunately, it can't scan larger signs so I'll have to depend on a few of my learned skills. It would be nice it it would translate text on a smart phone, but it doesn't seem to be able to translate text on a computer or tablet screen, the scan typically fails and I don't know why.The big failure is the lack of manual to be able to use all the features, I couldn't ever really figure out what those two colored hardware buttons are on the device. The scanner seems to work on it's own. Plus I'm very disappointed that it won't translate spoken speech worth a damn as far as I know. I'll say this to the maker, I'm giving this a tiny very weak recommend, for it's text translation, but that said there are probably better devices out there. Two stars is not going to attract buyers, and I'm sorry for that, but if I am provide a link to a comprehensive manual, and can find out how to use, fix, upgrade software to get some of the issues fixed. I promise to revisit and upgrade my rating appropriately. If I thought the device was crap, I'd say so, but I believe it has potential. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out everything, but it's not sufficiently intuitive enough for that. If there is a manual, it would be nice to upgrade the software to use it within the device. One of the best things to know how to use would be the aural translation, if you could set the source and destination language it would be great, and that blue and orange hardware buttons, how to use those properly would be nice.

The media could not be loaded.  I need a translator when I read foreign languages, so I tested this with 4 different languages, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. And, it really works well. You can choose to listen to what it said as well by simply press Speaker on the screen. And, you can do Phonetic translation for two languages, English and Spanish. It also supports recording and MP3 music as well. I wish it can offer more language options and hope they can update software for more languages. Good Job!!!

She’s Autistic/ADHD/Dyslexic, and reading is a struggle. so many days/nights have been tears and throwing books at the wall, with “I will never get it”.This is giving her the desire and confidence to work on her fluency and phonics,because she wants to be able to do it herself now.Before, she was just giving up.Tools like this can really give a child an opening into a new world. Due to “3.46” Screen size also helps her grandma who is losing her sight and now she is also able to translate speech and text into franchise

This is the first device like this I’ve used. So, I don’t have anything to compare it to. But I really like this translation scanner pen. The user interface is really intuitive and the pen itself is comfortable to hold while using. I can easily understand the voices used to speak the translation and thus far the translations are all very accurate. I also like that I can record myself practicing the language I’m learning and can hear how I’m saying it as compared to how the device is saying it. I find that very helpful. I would like the battery to last longer but I do use the scanning pen a lot.