ECTACO® Partner® E500T English Spanish Talking Electronic Dictionary & Phrasebook USER MANUAL
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual 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.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual 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.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 6 General View ........................................................................ 8 Power Supply ....................................................................... 8 Initialization......................................................................... 10 Keyboard ............................................................................ 11 Display....................
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual SAT 5000.............................................................................. 23 USA INTERVIEW ................................................................. 23 CALCULATOR ..................................................................... 24 CURRENCY CONVERSION................................................. 24 Setting and Checking Rates ............................................... 24 Conversion .........................................................
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing ECTACO® Partner® E500T! 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® E500T User Manual World time English Grammar guide USA Interview Calculator Slang lock Three font sizes Mini-USB port for external power supply Headphone jack As continuous efforts are being made by the manufacturer to ensure the best quality and performance of the ECTACO® Partner® products, some characteristics of the device you have purchased may slightly differ from their description in this manual.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual General View The general view and external features of ECTACO® Partner® E500T are shown below. Power Supply The device is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual 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. If you experience difficulty turning the device off, press the Reset button on the lefthand side of the keyboard (under the A key) and reset the system. • Remove the battery compartment cover by sliding it away from the device.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the device and may void the warranty. Always use the original accessories manufactured by ECTACO, Inc. Initialization The initialization routine is started: when ECTACO® Partner® E500T is turned on for the first time; after the system has been reset with the Reset button. The Reset button is located on the left-hand side of the keyboard (under the A key).
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Keyboard The American standard QWERTY keyboard allows you to enter any word just in seconds. • Enter the desired symbol from the keyboard by pressing the corresponding key. 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 the selected keyboard layout.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual SHIFT+ Switch between the Insert and Overtype modes , Move cursor / highlight / switch Main Menu , Highlight / scroll lines / switch Main Menu / change values P-UP / P-DN Page Up / Page Down ENTER Execute ESC Cancel / return to the previous page / switch to Main Menu ALT Enter diacritic letters (Á, É, Í, Ñ, Ó, Ú, Ü) – press the corresponding key + ALT. To enter such letters in caps, press SHIFT+ the corresponding key + ALT.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual SHIFT SHIFT key pressed INS Insert mode selected OVR Overtype mode selected Battery life indicator Slang lock is on The number of reverse translations performed Language input mode , , Translation direction , Horizontal scrolling enabled , Vertical scrolling enabled Main Menu ECTACO® Partner® E500T Main Menu consists of 15 icons, which visually organize access to the dictionary's sections.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual The icons shown in the Main Menu represent the following sections: Dictionary PhraseBook Hangman SAT 200 Currency Conversion Metric Conversion Popular Idioms Irregular Verbs English Grammar SAT 5000 USA Interview Calculator World Time Setup About DICTIONARY The Dictionary section includes English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionaries containing over 687,000 words in total.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T • User Manual When the desired word is highlighted, press ENTER to see its translation(s). You can listen to the pronunciation of any word or phrase in the Dictionary – just highlight it by using , , , and then press . Use: , to scroll through the translations; P-UP, P-DN to switch between adjacent entries. • Press ESC or any letter key to return to the input line and translate another word in the same dictionary. You can change the translation direction by pressing .
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual • Press SHIFT+SPELLER (SHIFT and either of the P-UP / P-DN keys). • Select the desired word and then press ENTER. If the spell-checker is unable to suggest alternative words, the No variants message will appear. Parts of Speech, Gender Labels, Abbreviations Translations of a headword are marked with part-of-speech labels: art. – article adj. – adjective npr – proper noun id. – idiom pron. – pronoun phr. – phrase aux. – auxiliary abbr. – abbreviation num.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Nouns can be marked with gender and number labels: FPL – feminine plural F – feminine MPL – masculine plural M – masculine MFPL – common gender plural MF – common gender Certain words and expressions in the dictionary are marked with abbreviations to indicate the use of such entries. náut. – nautical el. – electronics anat. – anatomy rel. – religion farm. – pharmacy astr. – astronomy sl. – slang hist. – history aut. – automobile LAm – Latin American téc. – technical bot.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T • User Manual Press ENTER to obtain its reverse translation. You can make up to 10 reverse translations in succession (without closing windows). The current number of the reverse translations performed is shown at the bottom of the display. Use: • ESC to close the reverse translation windows2; • SHIFT+DICT or any letter key to return to the input line.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual PHRASEBOOK The phrasebook contains over 14,000 phrases in the English and Spanish languages. The phrases are divided into 15 conversational topics. Translation direction can be changed by pressing . Basics Bank Repairs / Laundry Traveling Communication means Sport / Leisure Hotel In the restaurant Health / Drugstore Local transport Food / Drinks Beauty Care Sightseeing Shopping Calling for police All topics contain a number of subtopics.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual In the Phrases mode, the application shows full sentences, some of which have changeable parts. These are underlined. • Highlight the desired changeable part by using , press ENTER. and then For example, when viewing the phrase How frequent are the flights? you can highlight the flights and change it to the trains. • Press ENTER to confirm your choice.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual • Press SHIFT+VERBS to enter the Irregular Verbs section. • Type the first letters of the desired verb and scroll through the list to find it. • Press ENTER. • To listen to the pronunciation of the verb forms or translation(s), highlight the desired item by using , and then press . • Use the P-UP / P-DN keys to scroll through the entries. ENGLISH GRAMMAR GUIDE ECTACO® Partner® E500T contains the English Grammar guide in the English and Spanish languages.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual • Enter letters from the keyboard, trying to guess the word before the picture is complete. • When playing, press ENTER to display the translation of the hidden word (which will count as one try). To hide the translation, press ESC. • to listen to the pronunciation of the hidden word (counts Press as one try). After the game ends, the hidden word and its translation(s) will be shown.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual SAT 5000 This section includes five thousand words with transcriptions and definitions from the SAT vocabulary. • Enter the SAT 5000 section. All functions and keys in the SAT 5000 section work in the same way as they do in SAT 200. USA INTERVIEW This is the ultimate talking preparation guide to the U.S. citizenship exam. • Enter the USA Interview section. • To listen to the pronunciation of the chapter title, highlight it and then press .
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual CALCULATOR ECTACO® Partner® E500T includes a standard calculator with memory features. The screen has 14-digit display capacity. • Press SHIFT+CALC to enter the Calculator section. When entering numbers and operations from the keyboard, there is no need to press the SHIFT key while in the Calculator mode. Use this application as an ordinary pocket calculator.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual 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. METRIC CONVERSION With ECTACO® Partner® E500T you may easily convert units of measure from the British-American system into the metric system commonly used in Europe and vice versa, as well as convert within each system. • Press SHIFT+METRIC to enter the Metric Conversion section.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual • You can quickly find the desired city by pressing the first letter of its name and scrolling through the list by using , . • To see information for another city of the same country, scroll through the alphabetic list by pressing SHIFT+ or SHIFT+. • When you find the desired city, press ENTER to save changes. The next time you enter this section, the city you have chosen will be displayed first.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Speech settings Use the Speech settings to adjust the Volume, Speech frequency and Speech speed, shaping your own pronunciation style. • Select the desired option and then press ENTER. • Use ENTER to move between the Volume, Speech frequency, and Speech speed controls. • Use , • Press ENTER to save changes. to adjust the levels of each option. Slang lock In this subsection you can hide slang words or phrases contained in the Dictionary.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Time format The American 12-hour time format can be changed to the 24-hour format. When you switch the Interface language, the Time format may change. Clock In this subsection you can choose the desired city and adjust the current time. Use: , , or ENTER to move the highlight; or the numeric keys to change values. • Specify the current date and time. • Use the "A" and "P" keys to specify AM and PM, respectively. • Select the desired city.
ECTACO® Partner® E500T User Manual Set contrast The default contrast setting can be changed in the Set contrast subsection. • Change the Contrast level by using , • Press ENTER. . Set sleep time This feature saves battery life by shutting down the device after a specified period of inactivity: 1, 3 or 5 minutes.
