The Franklin's $230 top-of-the-line Speaking Global Translator converse with you using the real human voice instead of using a synthesizer to read out the typed things in 12 diverse languages, including English, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Other than the LCD screen for typing in the words, the Global Translator has up to 12,000 built-in common phrases too. It can speak out up to 450,000 words. Other key specs include an MP3 player, an alarm clock for multiple time zones, a calculator and a lottery-number generator.
The speaking Global Translator is your permit to sensation in business and leisure travel as it is the just right thing for communicating on almost any continent.
Via: nytimes