ECTACO Partner® XL1500 English-Arabic-Chinese-Dutch-French-GermanGreek-Hebrew-Italian-Japanese-Korean-PolishPortuguese-Russian-Spanish Talking Electronic Dictionary & Audio PhraseBook™ USER MANUAL
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 3 General View...................................................................................... 4 Power Supply..................................................................................... 4 Initialization ........................................................................................ 5 Keyboard...................................................
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing the ECTACO Partner® XL1500! 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.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual General View The general view and external features of the ECTACO Partner® XL1500 are shown below. Power Supply The ECTACO Partner® XL1500 is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries. 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.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual To restore full functionality of the device, replace the complete set of batteries as soon as possible. Do not mix old and new batteries. indicator will disappear and full If you plug in the AC adapter, the functionality of the device will be restored during 1 minute. 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.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Keyboard The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish layouts. Enter the desired symbol from the keyboard by pressing the corresponding key. To enter an accented letter, type the corresponding non-accented letter and then press the ALT key several times – until the desired character appears. To enter such letters in caps, press SHIFT+key+ALT1.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Unlike PC keyboards, there is no need to keep a key (such as SHIFT) down while pressing another one. It is enough to press it only once and release. The available set of national characters is dependent on which language input mode is selected in the Dictionary. Use to switch the translation direction. Use SHIFT+LANG to change the language pair.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Chinese, Japanese, Korean Input Methods The ECTACO Partner® XL1500 provides multiple input methods for typing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean entries. Set the Chinese, Japanese or Korean to English translation direction in the Dictionary. Press SHIFT+INPUT. The Set input method window will appear. Use , to select the desired input method and press ENTER. The corresponding icon will be shown at the upper left of the display.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual These two methods allow you to input Hiragana and Katakana syllabary characters by their Roman transcriptions. Start typing from the keyboard. As you type, the sequence of Roman letters automatically converts to Hiragana or Katakana. Kanji This method provides the input of the Chinese characters (Kanji), which are used in the Japanese language, by their Hiragana pronunciation. Type a syllable (or a vowel) from the keyboard.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Romanization This method provides the input of characters by their pronunciation. Type the character's transcription using Roman letters. Press ENTER or SPACE to input the corresponding Korean character. Display ECTACO Partner® XL1500 features a high-resolution screen (160x64 pixels).
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Use SHIFT+LANG to change the language pair. Viewing entries To view a translation of a word, enter it from the keyboard. If the Advanced Search mode is turned ON, the headword closest in spelling to the portion you have entered so far will be displayed under the input line. When the desired word is displayed, press ENTER to see its translation(s). Use: • , to scroll through the translations; • t, u to switch between adjacent entries.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Certain words and expressions in the dictionary may be marked with the specific abbreviations. Reverse Translation For your convenience, the ECTACO Partner® XL1500 provides a Reverse Translation for all words and expressions in the Dictionary. To obtain a reverse translation within the selected language pair: • press , to select a word or expression for the reverse translation; • press ENTER to obtain its reverse translation.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual If the spell-checker is unable to suggest alternative words, the No variants message will appear. Pronunciation of words and sentences The Text-To-Speech technology provides pronunciation of words and phrases for all 15 languages in the Dictionary. Display an entry. Use: to listen to the pronunciation of the headword. • • SHIFT+ to listen to the pronunciation of all translations currently displayed on the screen.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual When viewing phrases, use: • u or t to scroll through the phrases; • LANG to set the source language; • SHIFT+LANG to set the target language; • to listen to the pronunciation of the phrase; • SHIFT+ to listen to the pronunciation of the phrase translation. When you exit Phrasebook, the source language will be reset to English, the target language will be reset to that specified in the Setup section. CALCULATOR Enter the Calculator section.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual The default exchange rate for all currencies is 1. Press ENTER to save changes. Conversion Enter the Calculation subsection. Select a currency name and enter an amount. While you are typing a new amount, the conversion is being performed. HANGMAN WORD GAME Partner® The ECTACO XL1500 features the learning game Hangman, which can improve your spelling skills and enhance your personal vocabulary.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual The Local Time screen shows the names of the selected city and country (default: New York, USA), day of the week, the date, and the current time for that city. You may specify these settings in the Setup section. World Time Select the World time subsection. The World Time screen shows the names of the selected city and country (default: New York, USA), day of the week, the date, and the current time for that city.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Advanced search If the Advanced search mode is turned ON, the headword closest in spelling to the portion you have entered so far will be displayed under the input line. Advanced search is ON by default. Russian keyboard mode In this subsection, you can choose one of the available Russian keyboard modes: Standard or Phonetic. Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters in accordance with the keyboard marks.
ECTACO Partner® XL1500 User Manual Date format The default Day-Month-Year date format can be changed to Month-Day-Year. Time format The default 24-hour time format can be changed to the American 12-hour format. Set contrast The default contrast setting can be changed in the Set contrast subsection. Change the contrast level by using , . Speech options Suit your own pronunciation by adjusting the speed and frequency of the built-in speech synthesizer.
