Timekettle T1 Handheld Translator Review: Global Offline Translation

This service is different in the chat application, which presents your language on the one hand and on the other with a bi-face conversation system with your partner’s language, upside-down. This setup has no button-presses: Each speaker simply speaks on a microphone on both sides of the handheld and a translation appears and displayed in the text next to the screen. It is the same idea as a one-click translation, but more hands-free.

The other main feature is a photo-based translation app, which works just as you think is that it spreads a picture of a text in a foreign language. The unit supports 40 languages, with many multiple dialects and are proud of the support for “93+ pronunciation”. If you are connected online via Wi-Fi or by cellular network, any of these languages can be translated into any other language.

But the fatal feature of T1 is that you can download offline language packs, which are you to translate the text when you are at the AI-driven CPU of the unit Not Attached. The device supports 31 offline language pairs but note that it is not like 31 languages. Korean-to-thay translation is supported as a Korean-to-Russian, but if you are not online, you cannot translate Thai to Russian. For English, only 10 languages are supported, and every combination you want to use must be downloaded on the device when you have a connection.

Photograph: Chris Nall

Translations are fast – if the Timaketle claims not fully complete in 0.2 seconds – and the precision as I tested against any standard translator was better. This was a more intuitive way to translate audio than Google translation (at al.) On smartphones, although the Google method seems to be well understood worldwide nowadays.

I did not notice any real differences between the quality or speed of online and offline translations in different language tests, and many of my text-based translations with Google translations (probably so suspiciously so) turned (probably so). Voice translations are not perfect, because they never live with these devices, but they meet about 90 percent accuracy that promises the TimaCel. Confirm that running an operating system update (you will not be requested to do this; the option to make the handoff more breakfast between offline and online modes is buried in the “Settings” menu).

Screen problem

The only main negative aspect of the device is the screen, which has a SAD 540 X 1080-Pixel resolution, making it difficult to capture much more to translate with an 8-megapixel camera. Although I can easily take pictures on a full screen with my cell phone for translation, only a few lines at once due to limited resolution of T1. When I zoom out the results were usually wildly incorrect or completely unreasonable. There was a need to get closer to the text in the end to get a correct translation with T1’s camera.

Photograph: Chris Mull