ECTACO® Partner® ER400 Professional English Russian Professional Talking Electronic Dictionary & Phrasebook USER MANUAL
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional 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® ER400 Professional User Manual CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................5 General View........................................................................................6 Power Supply.......................................................................................6 Initialization ..........................................................................................7 Keyboard...................................
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual Advanced search ...............................................................................20 Russian keyboard mode ....................................................................20 Key tone.............................................................................................20 Clock ..................................................................................................20 Date format .................................................
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing the ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional! 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® ER400 Professional User Manual General View The general view and external features of the ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional are shown below. Power Supply The ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual 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. To restore full functionality of the device, replace the complete set of batteries as soon as possible. Do not mix old and new batteries.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional • User Manual after the system has been reset with the RESET button. The RESET button is located on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over the O key). It can be accessed with any thin object like a paper clip. Never use a needle or pin for this purpose since it can damage the device. If you see the Initialize system? (y/n) message, press the N key to abort initialization and customization.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional 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 the selected keyboard mode. • Use to switch between English and Russian keyboard modes in the Dictionary section.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional SHIFT+ SHIFT+EXIT User Manual symbols3 Enter additional Switch to Main Menu Display ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional features a high-resolution screen (160x64 pixels).
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual Popular Idioms Local and World Time Hangman Word Game Setup DICTIONARY ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional features 1,100,000-word English Russian dictionary database including specialized vocabulary: business – 25,000 words, finance – 57,000 words, law – 69,000 words, medicine – 34,000 words, oil and gas – 43,000 words, information technologies and telecommunications – 24,000 words. • Enter the Dictionary section.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual Meanings of certain words depend on the case of letters the word is written. For example, Archer – Стрелец [астр.]; archer – стрелок из лука, лучник. Such words are shown in different entries. Parts of Speech and Gender Labels Translations of a headword are shown with their parts of speech.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual mech. – mechanics стомат. – stomatology иск. – art med. – medicine строит. – building ист. – historical opt. – optics театр. – theater карт. – cards pharm. – pharmacy текст. – textile кино – cinema physiol. – physiology тех. – technical книжн. – literary psychol. – psychology типогр. – printing кож. – tanning stomat. – stomatology уст. – obsolete комм. – commerce vet. – veterinary фарм. – pharmacy комп. – computers акуш. – obstetrics фехт. – fencing косм.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual Reverse Translation For your convenience, the ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional provides a Reverse Translation for all words and expressions in the Dictionary. To obtain a reverse translation: press , to select a word or expression for the reverse translation; press ENTER. Use: ESC to close the Reverse Translation windows.4 ESC or any letter button to return to the input line.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual Pronunciation of words and sentences The Text-To-Speech technology provides pronunciation of words and phrases for the English and Russian 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. You can also listen to the pronunciation of separate words or phrases listed in the entry.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual • Select a topic. Press ENTER to see its subtopics. • Select a subtopic. Press ENTER to see the phrases. When viewing phrases: use u or t to scroll through the phrases; press to listen to the pronunciation of the phrase; use SHIFT+ to listen to the pronunciation of the phrase translation.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional User Manual If you guess a letter correctly, it will appear in place of an asterisk in the word. • When playing, press ENTER to display the translation of the hidden word (which will count as one try). To hide the translation, press ESC. • Press the button to hear the hidden word (counts as one try). After the game ends, the hidden word and its translation(s) will be shown. • Press ESC to return to a new game. CALCULATOR • Enter the Calculator section.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional • • • User Manual You can specify or change the names of any of the currencies listed. New currencies may be added in place of ???. Change/specify the currency name. Press ENTER to open the next window. Specify an exchange rate relative to the basic currency (whose rate should equal 1). 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.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional • • • • User Manual To see information for another city, scroll through the alphabetic list by using , . To see information for another city of the same country or switch to another country, scroll through the alphabetic list by pressing u, t. Also, you can quickly find a desired city by entering the first letter of its name and scrolling through the list by using , . When you find the desired city, press ENTER to save changes.
ECTACO Partner® ER400 Professional 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® ER400 Professional User Manual This display shows the city and country names and the city's GMT offset. Refer to page 19 to learn how to find the desired country or city in the list. • When you find the desired city, press ENTER to save changes. Date format The Month-Day-Year date format can be changed to Day-Month-Year. Time format The American 12-hour time format can be changed to the 24-hour format. Set contrast To change the default contrast setting, select the Set contrast item.
