Ectaco Partner C-4Al User manual

ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER
EnglishRussian
Professional Talking Electronic Dictionary & eBook
USER MANUAL
ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER
Англо-русский ирусско-английский
профессиональный говорящий электронный
словарь иэлектронная книга
РУКОВОДСТВО ПО ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ

ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER User Manual
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of data as a result of malfunction, repairs, or battery replacement. Be sure to
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 5
General View ........................................................................................ 6
Power Supply........................................................................................ 6
SD card................................................................................................. 7
Initialization ........................................................................................... 7
Keyboard .............................................................................................. 7
Display .................................................................................................. 9
Main Menu .......................................................................................... 10
Context Menu ..................................................................................... 10
DICTIONARIES..................................................................................... 11
EnglishRussian Dictionary ............................................................. 11
PhraseBook ........................................................................................ 17
Popular Idioms.................................................................................... 18
Irregular Verbs .................................................................................... 19
EXERCISES.......................................................................................... 19
FlashCards ......................................................................................... 19
Hangman Word Game........................................................................ 21
SAT 200.............................................................................................. 22
SAT 5000............................................................................................ 22
English Grammar Guide ..................................................................... 23
Calculator............................................................................................ 23
Metric Conversion............................................................................... 23
Currency Conversion .......................................................................... 24
USA Interview ..................................................................................... 24
World Time ......................................................................................... 25
SETUP .................................................................................................. 26
Set language....................................................................................... 26
Set font size ........................................................................................ 26

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Speech settings .................................................................................. 27
Slang lock ........................................................................................... 27
Time settings ...................................................................................... 27
System settings .................................................................................. 28

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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on purchasing ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER! 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®C-4ER features:
1,000,000-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
Crystal-clear output of native-speaker voice narration for over 14,000 useful
phrases for daily communication
WordNet vocabulary – 70,000 words with definitions
Unlimited voice function in English and Russian
Instant reverse translation
Russian Standard and Phonetic keyboard layouts
Look-up function
Vector Ultima™ spell-checking system
Phonetic transcription
English irregular verbs
Over 200 popular American idioms
SAT 200 and SAT 5000 vocabularies
Hangman word game
FlashCards game
Metric and currency converters
World time
English Grammar guide
USA interview
Calculator
Slang lock

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Three font sizes
Bilingual interface
AC/DC adapter jack
Headphone jack
SD slot
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.
General View
The general view and external features of ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER are shown
below.
Power Supply
ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER is powered by a special Li-Polymer rechargeable
battery.
The battery is not user-replaceable.
When the battery becomes weak, the battery life picture is shown as . In that
case, the voice function will be disabled in order to prevent excessive discharge

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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
ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER is equipped with a jack for external power supply.
Only a special charger may be used with your ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER.
Use of an inappropriate external power supply may cause failure of the
device and will void the warranty. The AC/DC adapter should provide 5V
and min 250mA DC.
•Connect the AC/DC adapter to your device via the AC/DC adapter jack (see
General View). The battery charging process will start.
SD card
Before you start using your ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER, please make sure the SD
card (included in the standard package) is installed into the SD slot of the device.
If the card is not installed, slide it into the slot located on the lower edge of the
device – the contacts of the card face up (if the device is unfolded), label face
down. Push the card gently until it clicks into place. To eject the card, just push it
in slightly.
Initialization
The initialization routine is started:
when ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER 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 (over the
SHIFT 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 Nkey to abort
initialization and customization.
The System initialized! message indicates that system initialization has been
completed and the factory defined default settings have been restored.
Keyboard
The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with Russian layout.
•Enter the desired symbol from the keyboard by pressing the corresponding
key.

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ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER has standard and phonetic modes of entering
Russian letters. Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters
corresponding to the keyboard marks. Russian phonetic mode allows you to
enter Russian letters by their phonetic consonance with English letters, e.g. you
can press the Fkey to enter the Russian letter "Ф".
The table below shows the Russian and English layouts in the Russian phonetic
mode1.
q
я
w
ш/щ
e
е/э
r
р
t
т
y
ы
u
у/ю
i
и
o
о
p
п
a
а
s
с
d
д
f
ф
g
г/ж
h
х
j
й
k
к
l
л
z
з
x
ь/ъ
c
ц/ч
v
в
b
б
n
н
m
м
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.
Function shortcut keys
ON/OFF Turn the device on or off
Reset Re-initialize system
Activate the Context Menu
Pronounce a highlighted item
SHIFT+ Pronounce translation
SHIFT+Switch to the preceding entry shown in the title bar on the
left-hand display (available in the Dictionary, Popular
Idioms, Irregular Verbs, SAT 200 and SAT 5000
applications)
SHIFT+Switch to the subsequent entry shown in the title bar on the
right-hand display (available in the Dictionary, Popular
Idioms, Irregular Verbs, SAT 200 and SAT 5000
applications)
1Press ALT to enter letters shown after the slash (/) in the table.

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SHIFT+Page Up
SHIFT+Page Down
Other shortcut keys open sections or applications corresponding to the marks on
the keys (press SHIFT+ shortcut key; for example, SHIFT+DICT).
Control and edit keys
Move cursor / move highlight up / switch Main Menu /scroll
text
Move cursor / move highlight down / switch Main Menu /
enter space (when the cursor is at the end of line) / scroll
text
SHIFT+Enter space
Scroll up / switch Main Menu / change values
Scroll down / switch Main Menu / change values
Enter Execute
ESC Cancel / return to the previous page / switch to Main Menu
ALT Enter the Russian letters Х, Э, Ж, Б, Ю, Ъ(press the
corresponding key + ALT). To enter such letters in caps,
press SHIFT + the corresponding key + ALT.
SHIFT Type in uppercase
BS Delete character to the left of the cursor
Switch translation direction
Display
ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER features two high-resolution screens (255x160 pixels
each).
The indicator lines are at the top and at the bottom of the display and show the
following indicators:
SHIFT SHIFT key pressed
INS Insert mode selected
OVR Overtype mode selected
Battery life indicator

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Slang lock is on
The card is in the SD-slot
The number of reverse translations performed
, More contents available
Beginning or end of list / scrolling unavailable
, Horizontal scrolling enabled
, Vertical scrolling enabled
Main Menu
ECTACO®Partner®C-4ER Main Menu consists of four sections, which visually
organize access to the corresponding applications.
To display the Main Menu, turn the device on and/or close a current application.
•Move between sections by using , or , .
•To open a section, subsection or application which icon is highlighted, press
Enter.
•Move between applications or subsections by using , .
•To go up one level, press ESC or .
The icons shown in the Main Menu represent the following sections:
– Dictionaries – Exercises
– Extras – Setup
Context Menu
The Context Menu is available in most applications.
•To activate the Context Menu (where available), just press .
•To take a Context Menu action for the desired item, select it and then press
to activate the Context Menu.