Ectaco ER400 Professional User Manual
ECTACO® Partner® ER400 Professional
EnglishRussian
Professional Talking Electronic Dictionary
&
Phrasebook
USER MANUAL
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User manual
ECTACO, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from
the use of this manual.
ECTACO, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties,
which may arise through the use of this product.
ECTACO, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by
deletion of data as a result of malfunction, repairs, or battery replacement. Be
sure to back up all important data on other media to avoid data loss.
The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice.
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Partner
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All rights reserved.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................5
General View........................................................................................6
Power Supply.......................................................................................6
Initialization ..........................................................................................7
Keyboard..............................................................................................8
Display ...............................................................................................10
Main Menu .........................................................................................10
DICTIONARY..........................................................................................11
Viewing entries...................................................................................11
Parts of Speech and Gender Labels..................................................12
Reverse Translation...........................................................................14
Vector Ultima™ Spell-checker ...........................................................14
Pronunciation of words and sentences ..............................................15
PHRASEBOOK.......................................................................................15
IRREGULAR VERBS..............................................................................16
POPULAR IDIOMS.................................................................................16
HANGMAN WORD GAME .....................................................................16
CALCULATOR .......................................................................................17
METRIC CONVERSION .........................................................................17
CURRENCY CONVERSION...................................................................17
Setting and Checking Rates...............................................................17
Conversion.........................................................................................18
LOCAL AND WORLD TIME...................................................................18
Local Time..........................................................................................18
World Time.........................................................................................18
SETUP ....................................................................................................19
Interface language .............................................................................19
Slang lock ..........................................................................................19
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Advanced search ...............................................................................20
Russian keyboard mode ....................................................................20
Key tone.............................................................................................20
Clock ..................................................................................................20
Date format ........................................................................................21
Time format........................................................................................21
Set contrast........................................................................................21
Speech options ..................................................................................21
Set sleep time ....................................................................................21
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on purchasing the ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional! This
product is the result of the combined efforts of Ectaco's linguists, engineers, and
programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance
integrated linguistic systems available.
The ECTACO Partner
1,100,000-word EnglishRussian dictionary database including 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
14-topic English Russian phrasebook with a total of 2,900 phrases for
daily communication
Unlimited voice function in English and Russian
Instant reverse translation
Russian Standard and Phonetic keyboard layouts
Look-up function
Award-winning Vector Ultima™ spell-checking system
Phonetic transcription
English irregular verbs
Over 200 popular American idioms
Word game
Metric and currency converters
Local and World time
Calculator
Slang lock
Bilingual interface
AC adapter jack
Headphone jack
As continuous efforts are being made by the manufacturer to ensure the best
quality and performance of the ECTACO Partner
characteristics of the device you have purchased may slightly differ from their
description in this manual.
®
ER400 Professional features:
®
products, some
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General View
The general view and external features of the ECTACO Partner® ER400
Professional are shown below.
Power Supply
The ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional is powered by two AAA (LR03)
batteries.
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When the batteries become weak, a warning message will be displayed. In order
to prevent excessively discharging the batteries and undergoing a resulting loss
of data in RAM, the Say function will be disabled if battery power is low.
To restore full functionality of the device, replace the complete set of batteries as
soon as possible. Do not mix old and new batteries.
If you plug in the AC adapter, the
functionality of the device will be restored during 1 minute.
indicator will disappear and full
How to replace the batteries
• Ensure the power is off. Press ON/OFF to turn the device off.
Never try to remove batteries from the device when the power is on. This can
seriously damage the device. If you experience difficulty turning the device
off, press the RESET button on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over the
O key) and reset the system.
• Remove the battery compartment cover by sliding it away from the device.
• Remove the used batteries and replace them with new ones.
When replacing the batteries, you have about 30 seconds to place new ones
in the device without risk of losing user-defined settings stored in RAM.
Neither the manufacturer nor the dealer may be held responsible for loss of
user data.
• Make sure to place the batteries according to the polarity marks (+ -) inside
the compartment.
• Replace the battery compartment cover by sliding it toward the device. Make
sure the cover sits in place properly.
The ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional is equipped with a jack for external
power supply.
Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the
device and may void the warranty. The AC/DC adapter should provide 6V
and min 300mA DC.
Initialization
The initialization of the dictionary is performed:
when ECTACO Partner
time;
when you remove the batteries (e.g. during replacement);
®
ER400 Professional is turned on for the first
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