- "Well, I see that time is running out, so we had better turn our attention to the assembly of the impulse-to-voice translator: the impulse-to-voice translator, the very heart of the mini-transmitter, which converts electronic energy, which you provide, into any of a thousand recognizable languages."
- ―Dromboid, hosting an instruction cassette
The impulse-to-voice translator was a component in the construction of mini-transmitters, devices that converted speech into other languages. One Amorphiian company sold a brand of mini-transmitter during the Galactic Civil War that included an impulse-to-voice translator.