Abstract: An electronic data transmission device includes an electronic text recording device which records a text which is written or spoken in a first language and transforms the text into electronic data. An electronic data translation device is coupled with a text recording device and includes a data processing system and a translation program having a data bank with saved grammatical and vocabulary information. The data processing system translates the electronic data by way of the data processing system, and according to the grammatical and vocabulary information, into second electronic data which represents the recorded text in the second language. An electronic text reproduction device is coupled with the data translation device and reproduces the second electronic data as written and/or spoken text.