Ectaco Partner PW800 User Manual

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ECTACO Partner

PW800

Talking Electronic Dictionary

Audio Phrasebook™

USER MANUAL

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ms by third parties which

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or otherwise, without

permission from ECTACO, Inc.

Partner

is a registered trademark of ECTACO, Inc., NY, USA

–

2006 ECTACO, Inc., New York, USA.

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CONTENTS

GENERAL DESCR

IPTION

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Introduction

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.......3General View

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....4Power Supply

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...4MultiMedia Card (MMC)

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Initialization

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.......5Keyboard

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Display and Main Menu

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Opening and Closing Applications

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..6Sidebar

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7On-

screen Keyboard

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Windows

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Toolbar

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Pronunciation of Words and Sentences

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DICTIONARIES

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How to Use the Dictionaries

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Adding Entries to Flash Cards

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.......11Parts of Speech, Gender Labels, Abbreviations

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Main Dictionary

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WordNet Dictionary

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Phrasebook

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....13SAT 200

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SAT 5000

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........14EXERCISES

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.....15Flash Cards

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....15Pockets

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Spell It

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Translation Test

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Dictionary Setup

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EXTRAS

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Media Player

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..17Calculator

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.......18Conversion

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.....18World Time

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.....19SETUP

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Pen Calibration

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Settings

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User Manual

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...22About

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INTERNATIONAL WARRANTY

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......23WARRANTY SLIP

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GENERAL

DESCRIPTION

Introduction

Congratulations on purchasing

the

high-end class Talking Electronic Dictionary &

Audio PhraseBook™! The product you have purchased is the result of combined

efforts of ECTACO's staff of linguists, engineers, and programmers. You ar

e now the

owner of one of the most advanced electronic devices ever produced for translation

purposes and for language studies.

ECTACO Partner

800 features:

•

Dictionary of over 500,000 words (depends on the language pair)

• WordNet dictionary

–

70,000

words with explanations

• SAT 200 and SAT 5000 vocabularies

•

Voice function

• Phonetic transcription

• Instant reverse translation

• Look

up function

• Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™

• "Add New Word" function

• Audio phrasebook with English speech recognition and more than 8,000 phrase

pronounced by native speakers

•

Ability to display possible

replies you may hear from your interlocutor

•

Vector Ultima™ spell

checker

•

Language learning modules

: Flash Cards, Pockets, Spell It, Translation Test

• Media Player with mp3 support

• Currency conversion

• Metric conversion

• World Time

• Daily Alarm

• Calculator

• Three font sizes

: small, medium,

large

• Adjustable color schemes for customizing the appearance of screen elements

• Slang Lock

• Color touch screen

• MMC/SD slot

• Headphone jack

• Microphone jack

• AC/DC adapter jack

Device is powered by AC/DC adapter and rechargeable battery (all inc

luded in the

standard package)

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General View

The general view and essential features of ECTACO Partner

800 are shown

below:

Power Supply

ECTACO Partner

PW800

is powered by a special Li

Polymer rechargeable battery.

When the battery becomes weak, a war

ning message will be displayed. In that case,

the voice function will be disabled in order to prevent an 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 po

ssible.

How to Recharge the Battery

• Make sure the battery is inserted in the battery compartment which is located on the

bottom panel of the device.

Note:

Only a special rechargeable battery and a special adapter may be used with

your ECTACO Partner

PW800. 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. The AC/DC adapter jack is located on

the rear edge of the device and is labeled DC 6V.

The red LED sig

nal shows that the battery is recharging and the green one shows it is

charged.

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MultiMedia Card (MMC)

Before you start working with your ECTACO Partner

PW800

, please make sure the

MMC is installed into the

MMC / SD

slot of the device. If the card is not

installed, slide

it into the slot located on the right 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 MMC,

just push it in slightly.

Initialization

The initialization r

outine is started:

• when ECTACO Partner

PW800

is turned on for the first time;

• after the system has been reset with the RESET button.

Note:

The RESET button is located on the left

hand side of the keyboard (over the

key). It 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.

Keyboard

The key

board

allows you to enter any word just in seconds. Language modes

can be

toggled by pressing the

key.

The function and cont

rol keys are described below.

Note:

Key1+Key2 here and further on signifies the combination of keys to use

–

first

press and release Key1, then press and release Key2.

Key

Function(s)

Turn the device On or Off

Reset

Re-initialize system

Use speech r

ecognition (available in

Phrasebook

)

Show the list of

Main Menu

sections and active applications

Use speech function

Close active window / Cancel

Delete character to the left of cursor

Switch focus between displayed controls (check boxes, ra

dio

buttons etc.)

Type in uppercase / Enter additional symbols (marked on the

numeric keys)

+, Launch spell

checker

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Clear input

key

Use shortcut keys (shortcuts for toolbar buttons, where available,

are shown in their corresponding tool tip

Switch language or translation direction

Input

accented and special characters

–

please refer to the

Keyboard

section of the

online manual (see pag

e 22)

Execute

, , ,

Move cursor or highli

ght / Scroll lines

Page by screen / Switch

Main Menu

sections

Enter space

Display and Main Menu

ECTACO Partner

PW800

features touch screen (320 x 240 pixels) with a windows

driven graphical interface. The

Main Menu

consists of four sections, whi

ch visually

organize access to the ECTACO Partner

PW800

applications.

Note:

Tapping screen items is preferably done with the supplied pointing device called

the stylus, which, when not in use, is kept in a special slot at the base of the device's

case (se

General View

). As an on

board help to the user, a short toolbar button

description (tool tip) appears when an on

screen button is being touched.

Main Menu

• To access the

Main Menu

turn the device on, then press

on the keyboard,

or tap

on the screen

and select the

Desktop

item in the appeared menu. Tapping

the

Dictionaries

Exercises

Extras

, or

Setup

items in that menu will bring you to the

corresponding section.

• Use the

Dictionaries

section to access

Main

Dictionary

WordNet

Dictionary

Phraseboo

k, SAT 200

, and

SAT 5000

• Use the

Exercises

section to access

Flash Cards

Pockets

Spell It

Translation Test

and

Dictionary Setup

• Use the

Extras

section to access

Media Player

Calculator

Conversion

, and

World

Time.• Use the

Setup

section to acce

Pen Calibration

Settings

User Manual

, and

About

Note:

To disable the

Slang lock

function in the

Setup

section, please use this

password:

showslan

Opening and Closing Applications

• The easiest way to open a specific application is to tap its corresp

onding icon.

Alternatively, the applications can be chosen by pressing the arrow keys

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(,,,) or one of the paging keys

(, )

on the keyboard. When the

application name is highlighted, just press

to launch

the program.

• To close an application, tap

in the upper right corner of the screen, or press

Sidebar

Twelve applications of ECTACO Partner

800 have their permanent touch

sensitive shortcut buttons on the

Sidebar

to the right and left of the screen

Main Dictionary

Spell It

WordNet

Dictionary

Translation Test

SAT 200

Media Player

Phrasebook

Calculator

Flash Cards

World Time

Pockets

Settings

On-screen Keyboard

The on

screen keyboard is a set of virtual keys displayed on the screen. This set of

keys simulates

the conventional physical keyboard or part of it. The on

screen

keyboard shown below is the most widely used throughout the ECTACO Partner

PW800

applications.

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• In applications featuring text input, tap the

button on the toolbar to invoke the on

scree

n keyboard. To hide it, tap anywhere on the screen outside of the on

screen

keyboard.

•

When using

the on-

screen keyboard, t

access

additional

characters.

Windows

Every application, pop

up menu, or dialog box used in ECTACO Partner

800

appears in

its own window. A window is displayed as a framed screen area with two

main elements: the

title bar

and the

close button

(

or ).Any window can be closed either by pressing

on the keyboard or by tapping the

close button in the upper

right corner of th

e window.

• To move an overlapping pop

up window, tap on its title bar and drag the window to

another part of the screen holding the stylus down.

The scroll bar is shown when the contents don't all fit on the screen. The

slider

shows

the position of the di

splayed contents relative to the rest of data.

On the scroll bar:

• tap a scroll arrow

to advance or go back one line;

• tap and drag the slider to browse information;

• tap the scroll bar below or above the slider to jump to the corresponding porti

on of

text.

Toolbar

toolbar

is a set of horizontally arranged buttons shown at the bottom of the

pertaining window.

Toolbar buttons have the following functions:

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