ECTACO Partner
®
ER850
User Manual
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the high-end class ECTACO Partner
®
ER850 Hand-
held Electronic Language Teacher
®
, Text Translator, Talking Dictionary, 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.
ECTACO Partner
®
ER850 features:
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Talking dictionary of 1,100,000 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
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WordNet dictionary – 70,000 words with definitions
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Unlimited voice function based on TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology
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Phonetic transcription
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Instant reverse translation
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Look-up function
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Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™
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Professionally narrated Audio PhraseBook™ with more than 14,000 phrases,
ECTACO Speech Recognition system
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Vector Ultima™ spell-checker
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State-of-the-art Full-text Machine Translation Program
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English idioms and irregular verbs
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ECTACO Speech Recognition based tutorial with graphical testing system
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Linguistic games: FlashCards, Pockets, Spell it Right, Translation Test, Hangman
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USA Interview
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Audio Tours for the Louvre Museum, the Orsay Museum, Versailles, the Historic Paris
Walk