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ECTACO iTRAVL

Language Teacher®, Dictionary, Audio PhraseBook™

and Travel Guide

Model: iTRAVL® series

USER MANUAL

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iTRAVL iTRANSLATE

, Language Teacher®, Audio PhraseBook™, MorphoFinder™, iHELP™,

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

The World Factbook. Copyright 2006, Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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 as well as software functionality are subject to change without prior notice.

No part of this manual shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without permission from ECTACO, Inc.

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FCC Statement

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Warning: Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the

receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

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CONTENTS

GENERAL DESCRIPTION............................................................................. 7

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................7

GENERAL VIEW....................................................................................................... 9

POWER SUPPLY ................................................................................................... 10

How to Recharge the Battery................................................................................ 10

SD CARD................................................................................................................ 11

INITIALIZATION...................................................................................................... 11

DISPLAY AND MAIN MENU................................................................................... 11

Main Menu............................................................................................................ 11

Using the Voice Commands .................................................................................12

Setting the Target Language ................................................................................12

ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD ..................................................................................... 13

WINDOWS.............................................................................................................. 13

TOOLBAR............................................................................................................... 14

POP-UP MENUS .................................................................................................... 14

PARTS OF SPEECH, GENDER LABELS, ABBREVIATIONS................................ 15

PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS AND SENTENCES.............................................. 16

ONLINE MANUAL................................................................................................... 16

iTRANSLATE ............................................................................................... 17

LANGUAGE TEACHER

Alphabet ............................................................................................................... 17

Words ................................................................................................................... 18

Phrases ................................................................................................................18

Dialogs.................................................................................................................. 18

DICTIONARY.......................................................................................................... 18

Spell-checker Vector Ultima™.............................................................................. 19

Adding Entries to FlashCards ............................................................................... 19

Options .................................................................................................................19

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ORDNET DICTIONARY ......................................................................................... 20

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AUDIO PHRASEBOOK ..........................................................................................21

Basics ................................................................................................................... 21

Categories: Subtopics, Useful words, You may hear............................................ 21

Settings................................................................................................................. 22

Speech Recognition.............................................................................................. 22

USAGE OF AUDIO PHRASEBOOK FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES........ 22

TEXT TRANSLATION............................................................................................. 23

FLASHCARDS........................................................................................................ 24

Creating New Sets and Adding Entries to FlashCards .........................................25

FlashCards ...........................................................................................................26

Pockets................................................................................................................. 26

Translation Test .................................................................................................... 27

Spell It Right .........................................................................................................27

iTRAVL ......................................................................................................... 27

FODOR'S TRAVEL GUIDE..................................................................................... 27

CIA WORLD FACTBOOK....................................................................................... 28

AUDIO BOOKS....................................................................................................... 28

WORLD TIME ......................................................................................................... 29

CALENDAR ............................................................................................................29

Adding Appointments............................................................................................ 29

Viewing, Editing, and Deleting Appointments .......................................................30

Agenda View, Day View, Calendar....................................................................... 30

SIZE EQUIVALENTS.............................................................................................. 30

METRIC CONVERSION ......................................................................................... 30

Using the Stylus.................................................................................................... 31

Using Voice Commands ....................................................................................... 31

CULTURAL NOTES................................................................................................ 31

EXTRAS .......................................................................................................32

AUDIO PLAYER .....................................................................................................32

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TASKS .................................................................................................................... 33

Adding New Task.................................................................................................. 33

Managing Tasks ...................................................................................................33

CALCULATOR........................................................................................................ 34

SETTINGS.............................................................................................................. 34

Standard / Megaphone settings............................................................................ 34

Power Options ...................................................................................................... 35

Local Date and Local Time ................................................................................... 35

Target Language ..................................................................................................36

VOICE RECORDER ...............................................................................................36

iHELP............................................................................................................ 36

iHELP...................................................................................................................... 36

Profiles.................................................................................................................. 37

Initial Training .......................................................................................................37

Phrases ................................................................................................................37

Adding or Editing Phrases and Voice Tags .......................................................... 38

Using Voice Tags.................................................................................................. 38

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations on your purchase of the high-end class ECTACO iTRAVL® Hand-held Electronic Language Teacher 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.

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features:

, Dictionary, Audio PhraseBook™ and Travel Guide! The

• Talking dictionary of 200,000 to 5,000,000 (depends on a language pair) general,

medical, technical, legal, and slang words and expressions with transcriptions, samples of usage, part-of-speech labels, special queries and filtering capabilities

• WordNet dictionary – 70,000 words with definitions

• Unlimited voice function based on TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology

• Voice navigation to ‘first need’ phrases

• Phonetic transcription

• Instant reverse translation

• Look-up function

• Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™

• Professionally narrated Audio PhraseBook™ with more than 14,000 phrases per

language pair, multiple-language ECTACO Speech Recognition system

• Vector Ultima™ spell-checker

• State-of-the-art Full-text Machine Translation Program (for selected languages)

• ECTACO Speech Recognition based tutorial with graphical testing system

• Linguistic games: FlashCards, Pockets, Spell It Right, Translation Test

• Fodor's Travel Guide to 50 cities

• CIA World Factbook for over 180 countries

• Audio Tours for the Louvre Museum, the Orsay Museum, Versailles, the Historic Paris

Walk

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• Audio Player with mp3 support

• Calendar

• Tasks

• Size Equivalents

• Metric Conversion

• Local and World Time

• Voice Recorder

• Calculator

• Backlight

• SD slot

• mini-USB port

• Headset jack

Device is powered by AC/DC adapter (Travel Charger) and rechargeable battery (all included in the standard package).

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GENERAL VIEW

The general view and essential features of ECTACO iTRAVL® are shown below:

Front Panel:

Back Panel:

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Key Function(s)

On/Off Turn the device On or Off. When the device is on, press and hold the

LED Blinking blue – recording is in progress or data being transferred.

Microphone Button

Speaker Button

Left Soft Key /Right Soft Key

On/Off button to turn the backlight On or Off.

Blinking red – SD card is being scanned, or the battery is critically low.

Use speech recognition (press and hold). Move highlight up (press and release). Page up.

Use speech function (press and hold). Move highlight down (press and release). Page down.

Activate menu or perform touch-button action.

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POWER SUPPLY

ECTACO iTRAVL® is powered by a special Li-Polymer rechargeable battery. When the battery becomes weak, the red LED signal starts blinking. In that case, the voice function will be disabled in order to prevent excessive discharge of the battery and a resulting loss of data in RAM. To restore full functionality of the device, recharge the battery as soon as possible.

How to Recharge the Battery

• Make sure the battery is inserted in the battery compartment.

♦ Note: Only a special rechargeable battery, special charger, and special USB cable or

USB cradle may be used with your ECTACO iTRAVL external power supply may cause failure of the device and will void the warranty.

. Use of an inappropriate

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• Connect the AC/DC adapter to your device via the mini-USB port (see General View),

or connect your device to your PC using the special USB cable or USB cradle.

The red LED signal shows that the battery is recharging and the blue one shows it is charged.

SD CARD

Before you start using your ECTACO iTRAVL®, please make sure the SD card (included in the standard package) is installed into the SD slot of the device. If the card is not installed, slide it into the slot located on the left edge of the device – the label of the card face up, contacts face down. Push the card gently until it clicks into place. To eject the card, just push it in slightly.

♦ Note: If the SD slot is covered, please detach the slot cover before you install the card.

INITIALIZATION

In the rare event that the data on the screen is corrupted or a program is not responding properly, you will need to perform a reset.

The Reset button is located on the back of the device (see General View).

• Press the Reset button with the tip of the stylus. Never use a needle or a pin since it

can damage the device.

On completion of the reboot, you will see the calibration screen with five targets, appearing one after another as you tap them with the stylus.

DISPLAY AND MAIN MENU

ECTACO iTRAVL® features a touch screen (240 x 320 pixels) with a windows-driven graphical interface. The Main Menu consists of four sections, which visually organize access to the ECTACO iTRAVL® applications.

♦ Note: Tapping screen items is preferably done with the supplied pointing device

known as a stylus, which, when not in use, is kept in a special slot at the side of the device's back panel (see General View).

Main Menu

• To display the Main Menu, turn the device on, exit the currently running application

and close the current section. The Main Menu consists of the following sections: iTRANSLATE, iTRAVL, Extras, and iHELP.

At the top of the screen, you will see the battery life indicator.

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• Tap the battery life indicator to change the battery life picture to percentage value or a

chart.

The Main Menu sections are described below. The content of the Main Menu depends on product model.

• Use the iTRANSLATE section to access Language Teacher

Dictionary, Audio PhraseBook, Text Translation (if available), and FlashCards.

, Dictionary, WordNet

• Use the iTRAVL section to access Fodor's Travel Guide, CIA World Factbook, Audio

Books, World Time, Calendar, Size Equivalents, Metric Conversion, and Cultural Notes.

• Use the Extras section to access Audio Player, Tasks, Calculator, Settings, and Voice

Recorder.

• Use the iHELP section to manage voice tags.

• When in a section, tap the desired application name. Alternatively, highlight it and then

tap Select or press the corresponding soft key. The application will then open.

• To close an application, tap at the upper right of the screen. Alternatively, select

Exit, or use Menu / Exit.

• To close the current section, select Back.

Using the Voice Commands

• When in the Main Menu, press and hold the Microphone button. You will see a dialog

with two buttons: Correct and Wrong.

• Say the name of the desired section or application and then release the Microphone

button. The section or application will then open.

• When in a section, press and hold the Microphone button.

• Say the name of the desired application and then release the Microphone button. The

application will then open.

♦ Note: When using voice commands, say Travel Guide for Fodor's Travel Guide and

World Factbook for CIA World Factbook.

Setting the Target Language

The Target Language setting is used in multilanguage models to set the target language for applications found in the iTRANSLATE section of the Main Menu.

• When in the Main Menu, tap the emblem in the middle of the screen.

You will see the Select Language screen.

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