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(More customer reviews)Besta CD-637: English Chinese Sentence Translation Electronic Dictionary (Voice: Mandarin/Cantonese/English/Japanese)
I was disappointed with the Pinyin input for this product. It is basically a single character mode pinyin input, i.e. it won't accept whole word or partial phrase entries like the Microsoft or Google pinyin input tools. So if you start typing "xuyao" (for the word "to need") it will halt after the "xu" and force you to select a character before moving on the the rest of the word. Accepting whole word or even phrase level input would limit the context to a few characters, aiding a non-Chinese speaker.
The handwriting input seemed to work pretty good, but most beginning Chinese learners are not going to be using this as their primary input method.
The Chinese pronunciation didn't make use of common rules like tone Sandhi, so the resulting voice output was very stilted and incorrect.
In general the device seemed to be much geared toward a Chinese-speaker learning English, which is not surprising. It won't be very useful for my needs though.
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