ECTACO SpeechGuard® Travel Edition User Manual
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................2
GENERAL DESCRIPTION..........................................................3
General View ............................................................................. 3
Power Supply ............................................................................4
MultiMedia Card (MMC)............................................................. 5
Initialization................................................................................5
Display and Main Menu .............................................................6
Opening and Closing Applications ............................................. 7
On-screen Keyboard.................................................................. 7
Windows .................................................................................... 7
Toolbar ......................................................................................8
Parts of Speech, Gender Labels, Abbreviations ........................9
Adding Entries to Flash Cards .................................................10
Daily Alarm ..............................................................................11
APPLICATIONS ........................................................................ 11
Dictionary................................................................................. 11
Phrasebook .............................................................................13
Flash Cards .............................................................................14
Pockets....................................................................................15
Spell It...................................................................................... 16
Translation Test ....................................................................... 17
Media Player............................................................................ 17
Calculator ................................................................................18
Conversion ..............................................................................18
World Time ..............................................................................19
Settings.................................................................................... 20
User Manual ............................................................................22
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ECTACO SpeechGuard® Travel Edition User Manual
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 are now the
owner of one of the most advanced electronic devices ever
produced for translation purposes and for language studies.
ECTACO SpeechGuard
• Voice function based on the TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology
• Phonetic transcription (if available)
• Instant reverse translation
• Look-up function
• Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™
• "Add New Word" function
• Audio phrasebook with English speech recognition and more
than 14,000 phrases pronounced by native speakers
• Vector Ultima™ spell-checker
• Linguistic games: Flash Cards, Pockets, Spell It, Translation
Test
• Media Player with mp3 support
• Currency conversion
• Metric conversion
• World Time
• Daily Alarm
• Calculator
• Three font sizes
• Screen backlight
• Slang Lock
• MMC/SD slot
• Headphone jack
• Microphone jack
• AC/DC adapter jack
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TL-2 features:
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
General View
The general view and essential features of ECTACO
SpeechGuard
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TL-2 are shown below.
Front Panel:
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Back Panel:
Power Supply
ECTACO SpeechGuard® TL-2 is powered by a special LiPolymer rechargeable battery. When the battery becomes weak,
a warning 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 possible.
How to Recharge the Battery
• Make sure the battery is inserted in the battery compartment.
Note: Only a special rechargeable battery and a special adapter
may be used with your ECTACO SpeechGuard
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inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the
device and will void the warranty.
• Unfix the rubber strip on the right-hand side of the device to
access the AC/DC adapter jack.
• Connect the AC/DC adapter to your device.
The red LED signal shows that the battery is recharging and the
green one shows it is charged.
MultiMedia Card (MMC)
ECTACO SpeechGuard® TL-2 MultiMedia Card is included in the
standard package. The card contains data necessary for proper
functioning of the device. You can copy the contents of the card
provided in the standard package to any other MMC or SD card
(up to 512 MB capacity) and then install your card in ECTACO
SpeechGuard
space for your mp3 files.
The MMC slot is situated under the battery in the battery
compartment. If the MMC is not installed, please follow the steps
below to install it.
Note: Always make sure the device is turned off before installing
or removing the MMC. Use the On/Off button to turn the device
off.
• To open the battery compartment (see General View), unscrew
two screws, holding the battery compartment cover.
• Remove the battery from the compartment.
• Slide the MMC into the MMC slot with the label face up and the
contacts face down.
• Insert the battery into the compartment and screw two screws
back.
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TL-2 – for example, if you wish to allocate more
Initialization
If you want to restore the default settings for your device or, in
the rare event of a program failure, to recover, you will need to
perform a reset procedure. This can be done in one of the
following ways:
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Reset by Using the Reset Button
• Unfix the rubber strip on the right-hand side of the device.
• Unscrew the removable cap of the stylus – it will serve you as a
reset pin.
Note: The Reset button can also be accessed with any thin
object such as a paper clip. Never use a needle or a sharp pin for
this purpose since it can damage the device.
• Press the Reset button. If you see a message offering you to
format the user disk, press the Down button to cancel formatting
and keep the user data. If you press the Up button, the user data
will be erased and the default settings will be restored. 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.
• To complete Calibration, please follow the instructions on the
screen. To skip Calibration, just press the Recognize button. You
will see the Main Menu.
Reset via the Setup Section
• Go to the Setup section by pressing the Setup button.
• Tap to open the Settings screen.
• Tap Defaults. You will receive a pop-up asking you to confirm
restoring.
• Tap OK to restore the default settings or Cancel to cancel the
restore process.
Display and Main Menu
ECTACO SpeechGuard® TL-2 features touch screen (320 x 240
pixels) with a windows-driven graphical interface. The Main Menu
consists of icons, which visually organize access to the ECTACO
SpeechGuard
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 side of the device's back panel (see
General View).
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TL-2 applications.
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Main Menu
• To access the Main Menu, turn the device on, then press
Home, or tap
on the screen.
Opening and Closing Applications
• The easiest way to open a specific application is to tap its
corresponding icon. Alternatively, the applications can be chosen
by pressing the arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, Right). When the
application name is highlighted, just press Recognize to launch it.
• To close an application, tap
screen.
in the upper right corner of the
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 SpeechGuard
TL-2 applications.
• In applications featuring text input, tap the
toolbar to invoke the on-screen keyboard. To hide it, tap
anywhere on the screen outside of the on-screen keyboard.
button on the
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Windows
Every application, pop-up menu, or dialog box used in ECTACO
SpeechGuard
displayed as a framed screen area with two main elements: the
title bar and the close button (
• 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.
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TL-2 appears in its own window. A window is
or ).
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