Ectaco Partner P850 User Manual

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Hand-held Electronic Language Teacher®, Text Translator,

Talking Dictionary, and Audio PhraseBook™

Partner® P850

USER MANUAL

ECTACO Partner® P850 User Manual

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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.................................................................................. 6

Introduction ........................................................................................................ 6

General View ..................................................................................................... 8

Power Supply..................................................................................................... 8

SD Card ............................................................................................................. 9

Initialization ........................................................................................................ 9

Keyboard............................................................................................................ 9

Display and Main Menu ................................................................................... 11

Sidebar............................................................................................................. 12

On-screen Keyboard........................................................................................ 13

Windows .......................................................................................................... 13

Pop-up Toolbar ................................................................................................ 13

Pop-up Menus.................................................................................................. 15

Parts of Speech, Gender Labels, Abbreviations.............................................. 16

Pronunciation of Words and Sentences .......................................................... 17

Online Manual.................................................................................................. 17

DICTIONARIES ................................................................................................. 17

Dictionary ......................................................................................................... 17

WordNet Dictionary.......................................................................................... 19

Audio PhraseBook ........................................................................................... 20

Text Translation ............................................................................................... 22

English Idioms.................................................................................................. 22

Irregular Verbs ................................................................................................. 23

Usage of Audio PhraseBook for Foreign Language Studies........................... 23

LANGUAGE TEACHER

Language Teacher

FlashCards....................................................................................................... 25

Hangman ......................................................................................................... 28

USA Interview .................................................................................................. 29

ENTERTAINMENT ............................................................................................ 30

Audio Books..................................................................................................... 30

Audio Player..................................................................................................... 30

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Voice Recorder ................................................................................................ 31

Calendar .......................................................................................................... 32

Tasks ............................................................................................................... 33

EXTRAS ............................................................................................................ 34

Calculator......................................................................................................... 34

World Time....................................................................................................... 35

Size Equivalents .............................................................................................. 35

Metric Conversion ............................................................................................ 35

Settings ............................................................................................................ 36

ECTACO Partner® P850 User Manual

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the high-end class ECTACO Partner® P850 Handheld Electronic Language Teacher 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

P850 features:

, Text Translator, Talking Dictionary, and Audio

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

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

• WordNet dictionary – 70,000 words with definitions

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

• Phonetic transcription (for English)

• Instant reverse translation

• Look-up function

• Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™

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

ECTACO Speech Recognition system

• Vector Ultima™ spell-checker

• State-of-the-art Full-text Machine Translation Program

• English idioms and irregular verbs

• ECTACO Speech Recognition based tutorial with graphical testing system

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

• USA Interview

• 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

• 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).

Note: Always use the original accessories manufactured by ECTACO, Inc.

The functionality of a particular model depends on the set of languages included, and it may partially differ from the device description in this manual. For more information about a particular model, please visit our Web site at www.ectaco.com.

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General View

The general view and essential features of ECTACO Partner® P850 are shown below.

Power Supply

ECTACO Partner® P850 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 may be used with your ECTACO Partner® P850. Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the device and will void the warranty.

• 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.

The red LED signal shows that the battery is recharging.

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LED status: blinking blue – recording is in progress or data being transferred; blinking red – SD card is being scanned, or the battery is critically low.

Note: Charge the battery overnight prior to the first use of the device.

SD Card

Before you start using your ECTACO Partner® P850, 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 right-hand edge of the device – the contacts of the card face up, label face down. Push the card gently until it clicks into place. To eject the card, just push it in slightly.

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 left-hand side of the keyboard (over the can be accessed with any thin object like a paper clip. Never use a needle or a sharp pin for this purpose since it can damage the device.

key). It

• Unscrew the removable cap of the stylus – it will serve you as a reset pin.

• Press the Reset button.

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. Tap the screen to accept the new calibration settings.

Keyboard

The American standard QWERTY keyboard allows you to enter any word just in seconds. Each set of national characters is linked to its language input mode.

The function and control keys are described below.

Note: Key1+Key2 here and further on signifies the combination of keys to use – first press and hold Key1, then press and release Key2.

Key Function(s)

Reset Re-initialize system

Turn the device on or off

Use speech recognition (available in Audio PhraseBook)

Show or hide the pop-up toolbar

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Use speech function / Listen to the pronunciation of the source item in Audio PhraseBook, English Idioms, Irregular Verbs (press

+ )

+key

Close active window / Cancel

Delete character to the left of cursor

Switch focus between displayed controls (check boxes etc.)

Press and hold this key down to type in uppercase or to enter additional symbols

. Press this key twice to toggle the Caps Lock

mode.

+ ,

+key

+ +key

, , ,

Launch spell-checker

Enter diacritic letters (for example: ä, ö, ü, ß)

Enter additional diacritic letters, if applicable

Enter diacritic letters in uppercase

Enter additional diacritic letters in uppercase, if applicable

Switch language or translation direction

Execute

Move cursor or highlight / Scroll lines

Page Up / Page Down / Switch Main Menu sections

Enter space

For non-English languages, specific letters can be entered as it is shown in the examples below.

ECTACO Partner

à – press

ê – press

press

+O, ù – press +U, û – press +U.

EF850:

+A, â – press +A, ç – press +C, é – press +E, è – press +E,

+R, ë – press +T, î – press +I, ï – press +I, ô – press +O, œ –

Additional symbols are marked on the numeric keys.

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EI850:

à – press

press +U.

ECTACO Partner

á – press +A, à – press +W, â – press +S, ã – press +Q, ç – press +C,

é – press

press +L, ú – press +U, ü – press +H.

+A, è – press +E, é – press +E, ì – press +I, ò – press +O, ù –

EPg850:

+E, ê – press +D, í – press +I, ó – press +O, ô – press +K, õ –

Display and Main Menu

ECTACO Partner® P850 features a touch screen (320 x 240 pixels) with a windowsdriven graphical interface. The Main Menu consists of four sections, which visually organize access to the ECTACO Partner® P850 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, and/or exit the currently running

application. The Main Menu consists of the following sections:

Dictionaries

Language Teacher®

Entertainment

Extras

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

The Main Menu sections are described below. The contents of the Main Menu depend on product model.

• Use the Dictionaries section to access Dictionary, Audio PhraseBook, Text

Translation, English Idioms, and Irregular Verbs.

• Use the Language Teacher section to access Language Teacher

Hangman, and USA Interview.

, FlashCards,

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• Use the Entertainment section to access Audio Books, Audio Player, Voice

Recorder, Calendar, and Tasks.

• Use the Extras section to access Calculator, World Time, Size Equivalents, Metric

Conversion, and Settings.

To open a section, do one of the following:

• tap the section icon;

• press the numeric key that corresponds to the section number.

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

then press . The application will open.

• To close an application, tap at the upper right of the screen, or just press .

Sidebar

Twelve applications of ECTACO Partner® P850 have their permanent touch-sensitive shortcut buttons on the Sidebar to the right and left of the screen.

Dictionary

English Idioms

Irregular Verbs

Audio PhraseBook

Calendar

On-screen keyboard

FlashCards

Audio Player

Calculator

World Time

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Frequently Asked Questions

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