Build Your Own ECTACO multilingual translator!

Category:	Talking bilingual dictionary expandable to include over 50 language combinations
Language pair:	English <-> Chinese; Chinese <-> English; English <-> English
Speech:	English and Chinese for the Dictionary; English and Chinese for the PhraseBook
Number of words:	over 560,000
Size:	6.6 x 3.9 x 0.9 in
Weight:	11 oz
Battery Type:	Li-Polymer rechargeable battery (3.7V, 1400mAh), included

The ECTACO Partner EC800 is a revolutionary, expandable bilingual Dictionary and Travel Audio PhraseBook. With cool modern styling, hi-resolution color touch-display and state-of-the-art linguistic tools it is one of a kind. The massive vocabulary contains over 560,000 words and is one of the biggest around. The inclusion of the most sophisticated and accurate voice facilities available on today's competitive market is the defining feature of this remarkable handheld. It features state-of-the-art English and Chinese Mandarin speech recognition that allows it to fine tune to understand what is said to it. It also features highly advanced English and Chinese voice capabilities powered by the latest TTS (Text-to-Speech) technology and even goes so far as to include crystal-clear native-speaker voice output for both languages in the Audio Travel PhraseBook section as recorded by professionals.

This intelligent linguistic device is literally packed with information and tools to help you master your foreign language skills for either academic endeavors or travel. It employs the latest language learning technologies that use foreign language Speech Recognition modules, a bilingual Machine Translation system and Text-to-Speech processing.

Highlights:

• Color display: the luxury of a hi-res color screen with adjustable color schemes, customizable elements, color-coded parts of speech, samples of use and much more
• Expandable vocabulary: over 560,000 words already included in the general dictionary - the largest vocabulary base ever! Plus you can easily add more than 50 language combinations available as ECTACO MMC Cards!
• Advanced English and Chinese speech synthesis.
• Superb English and Chinese Mandarin speech recognition, allowing the machine to fine-tune to an individual user's voice - an excellent language study tool and source of rewarding infotainment. Test your pronunciation by trying to speak out a phrase in the foreign language and see if the Partner understands you. If it does - then everyone else would understand your speech too!
• Designed with the real traveler in mind, the Audio PhraseBook is at daily disposal on pleasure or business trips. It delivers real human-voice output in English and Chinese for over 14,000 pre-recorded phrases. It also provides the different responses you might receive in the "You May Hear" section.

Dictionaries:

• WordNet Princeton edition English-English dictionary of modern English - over 70,000 head words and details explanations
• Over 560,000 words in English-Chinese general dictionary
• Advanced word recognition and MorphoFinder™
• Custom function "Add new word" allowing to create your own vocabulary and add them to the existing ones
• Slang lock: function allowing you to include or lock out Chinese and English slang from your dictionaries
• Look-up function helps you easily navigate through huge vocabulary bases at your disposal
• Interchangeable MMC/SD cards allow you to add a variety of languages and endless linguistic content from ECTACO, Inc.

Language-learning:

• SAT 200 and SAT 5000 vocabularies, helping you to prepare for tough, English-language standard proficiency tests
• Linguistic games: Flash Cards, Pockets, Spell It, Translation Test: these help you learn at your own pace, expand your vocabulary and improve spelling
• WordNet Princeton edition English-English dictionary of modern English - over 70,000 head words and details explanations
• Over 560,000 words in English-Chinese general dictionary, featuring synthesized voice in English and Chinese
• English phonetic transcription, essential tool for those learning to speak and write properly
• Vector Ultima™ spell-checker

Traveling:

• English <-> Chinese Audio PhraseBook with natural human-recorded speech will help you in a variety of standard everyday situations and activities
• FlashCards: the classic game that helps you improve your vocabulary while you play.

And more…

• Media Player to aid you in study and at play. Thousands of Audio Books are available to be programmed into this player.
• Currency and metric conversions
• World Time
• Daily Alarm
• Calculator
• … and more

This device is powered by AC/DC adapter and rechargeable battery (all included in the standard package)

ECTACO Partner EC800 is an English <-> Chinese Simplified translating device from the P800 series.

This product employs the Pinyin system for input of text.

Pinyin input is a transliteration system that allows you to read and write Chinese using the Latin alphabet. It requires users to enter a series of standard symbol combinations which are then able to be read as an accurate, standardized approximation of the Chinese language. The Pinyin system of input is the most popular and easy to use methods of communicating in Chinese without using hieroglyphs.

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PLEASE NOTE: A New version has been released. Have a look at the ECTACO Partner EC900 - English <-> Chinese Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook

This model is normally operated in a silent mode and you will need to press the "Speaker" button or to choose the corresponding option from the menu in order to hear the translation spoken out loud.

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS
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