ECTACO
®
Partner
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ER900
User Manual
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the high-end class Hand-held Electronic Language
Teacher
®
, Full Text Translation System, Talking Dictionary, Translator, and Audio
PhraseBook™! The product you have purchased is the result of the combined efforts of
the ECTACO team of linguists, engineers, and programmers. You are now the owner of
one of the most advanced electronic devices ever produced for translation purposes and
language studies.
Note:
This versatile device has the production name P900. The model name depends on
the languages included.
ECTACO
®
Partner
®
ER900 features:
Talking dictionary of 1,200,000 words in total. The dictionary database includes
specialized vocabulary: business – 25,000 words, finance – 57,000 words, law –
69,000 words, medicine – 34,000 words, oil and gas – 43,000 words, information
technologies and telecommunications – 24,000 words. It speaks translations out
loud with a real human voice.
WordNet Dictionary – 70,000-word English explanatory dictionary.
Pictured Dictionary – displays pictures of related words and provides translations
and human voice pronunciation in 39 languages.
Full Text Translation System – provides effective translation of any texts. Once
translated, the text can then be spoken aloud using the latest TTS (Text-to-Speech)
voice synthesis technology. Compatible with ECTACO
®
/C-Pen
®
scanner.
Audio PhraseBook™ – features advanced speech recognition and crystal-clear
output of native-speaker voice narration for 14,000 phrases per language pair.
English irregular verbs and popular idioms.
SAT 200 and SAT 5000 – short and advanced versions of the SAT Reasoning Test
vocabulary.
Universal Translator.
Language Teacher
®
– a complete system that will teach you step by step like a
personal tutor.
U-Learn™ – a hands-free and eyes-free speech recognition and speech analysis
system to learn words, phrases and grammar. It even includes "sleep mode" for
studies while you sleep!
English Grammar – concise reference guide to English grammar for ESL students.
