Talking Thai <> English Dictionary+Phrasebook App Reviews

I bought this app to help me while taking a Thai course with a teacher. I am also using Rosetta Stone. It is wonderful for looking up Thai words in English, in Thai (if you know the spelling), or by the sound of the Thai. It is organized very well, is easy to use and quite complete. Here and there I run across an instance of a word I want which isnt listed, but this is very rare. One glaring omission is the lack of numbers: the word for the numbers is there, but not the numeral. An excellent app, though, and worth every penny.

What a great app me and my wife use this app for those not so often used words.

$25 is a small price to pay for a complete talking dictionary. You cant event buy a real dictionary for that cheap new :) One really nice feature is switching the Thai fonts. Some Thai fonts are hard to read if youve only studied using more traditional typefaces. I was surprised to find some very helpful (and lengthy) lessons in the "help" section. Well done.

Why they wouldnt include common Thai phrases is beyond me. Could be way better for the price.

Totally worth the money and highly recommended!

Nice app! Need support for iPhone 5!

This is an excellent app to use in Thailand. You can easily find a word and play it for a Thai-speaking person and get your point across to them. Plus, they love that you are trying to communicate.

This app is well thought out and the best of any language app I have ever seen. Amazing stuff, it was useful right away and Im just consumed by it. This app has the sounds like feature I always wanted, and I have yet to see another app with this feature. This is a must have because even the slightest mis-pronounciation in Thai can cause confusion, so when you are trying to remember that word and exactly what the tone was, its intrumental to say the least. Excellent work!

I am amazed by this app. I use it all the time, as I am living in Thailand. It is my language assistant.

Use this app all the time its quick, easy to use and is constantly updating The amount of words. It is a little expensive but it is that much better and well researched from cheaper apps and after sales is almost instant. Other consumers are asking for phrases which as Paiboon is a leading teacher of Thai I dont expect that to appear any time soon. Bit like going into The Ritz and ordering Oreo cookies. Its not what she does. However what keeps this beautiful app from five stars is there is no favourite words storage and although there is a history its fleetingly short and of no real use. Come on guys this is a tremendous oversight. People need to store words they use not know Thai for ostentatiousness.

This is by far the best dictionary app Ive ever used! Worth every penny I spent on it.

Its not for translating whole sentences . Its one word at a time . It is good for that .

This app is a must for learners of Thai. I gave it five because it deserves five and I would add a few things. Too bad in the spelling explanation section you cannot just tap on the letter and go right to its particular description without looking it up on a chart. Also it would be great if they gave example sentences in certain instances, like when a phrase requires a word and they just show a blank(as in ... the Thai phrase for "testing someones limit"). It would be out of this world if you could choose between a female voice and a male and if there was an example sentence for each word. Otherwise it is packed with features. I love it. Even though I still find many English words missing, it is worth every penny!

I bought the dictionary in hard copy and carried it everywhere because it was the best I had found. When I found this app and downloaded it I was more than satisfied. Not only am I able to find the words instantly but now can hear the pronunciation as well. I use it to copy the Thai script and paste into a text message or email to Thai friends. It was worth every cent. Excellent and most useful app.

This is my favorite Thai app. And its the only one that has stayed on my home screen for the last year. Its fast, the translations are correct (unlike other apps where I have found tonal mistakes or outright mis-spellings), and the audio pronunciations are very helpful. Im not sure what improvements could be made, other than adding phrases. But even without that it is still very much worth its cost. A++

It may seem expensive but it’s well worth the price. I live in Thailand and use it almost daily. It’s basically a 150K word talking translation dictionary that pronounces each word clearly in a non-robotic human voice. Thai is a tonal language and so the correct pronunciation is very important. Actually being able to hear a Thai word pronounced over and over is what I love about this app and there’s no way you can get that from a non-pronouncation book. My main problem with this app is it does not allow me to create my own custom list of words for easier practice. Are you reading this Paiboon?

It does nearly everything a learner of Thai could want. The explanation of Thai alphabet and grammar were especially helpful. Please integrate an optical character recognition function and flash cards to make it a perfect package.

This is the most expensive app Ive ever purchased on the iPhone, and I was very disappointed that the developers havent ensured its compatible with iOS8. It seems to use a non-standard keyboard system which is incompatible with the new OS. Impossible to enter text in either English or Thai script, which makes the app completely unusable. The only reason I gave it two stars is because it used to be very good when it worked. Hopefully an update will fix the problem and make it usable again.

Was very good until OS upgrade. Now freezes up when you click "More", with no recovery except to re-start the app. Needs fixing, folks.

English to Thai is OK, but Thai sounds keyboard is odd the screen!