The revolutionary new ECTACO Partner EW800 is your all-purpose travel and language-learning companion in Western Europe. This addition to the ECTACO P800 series is an expandable, bi-directional English to/from German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish dictionary and Travel Audio PhraseBook. It is our most powerful and efficient hand-held translator, quickly providing instant translations between English and 5 other Western European languages, yet easily expanded to incorporate more than 50 language combinations by adding additional MMC/SD cards. As with the other devices in this series, the EW800 presents a vast vocabulary database; in this case containing more than 2,500,000 words and phrases! With its remarkable speaker independent speech recognition system, it is able to understand German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, providing unique learning opportunities for frequent travelers. It can also speak aloud all of the words and phrases in all 6 of the included languages making it one of the most useful language management solutions for business or tourist travel ever invented. Employing the latest language management solutions that use foreign language Speech Recognition modules and Text-to-Speech processing it is a real powerhouse. With its sharp, modern styling, hi-resolution color touch-screen and state-of-the-art linguistic tools it is truly one of a kind.

Highlights:

• Color display: a luxurious hi-resolution color screen with adjustable color schemes, customizable elements, color-coded parts of speech, samples of use and much more
• Expandable vocabulary: over 2,500,000 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/SD Cards!
• Advanced English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speech synthesis delivers the pronunciation of any text, not only dictionary entries
• Superb English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish 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. Recorded by professional native narrators it delivers superb voice output in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese for over 48,000 pre-recorded phrases. It also provides the different responses you might receive in the "You May Hear quot; section.

Dictionaries:

• WordNet Princeton edition English-English dictionary of modern English - over 70,000 head words and details explanations
• A total of over 2.500,000 words in the combined general dictionaries for English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
• Advanced word recognition including the English and Spanish 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 slang from your dictionaries
• Look-up function helps you easily navigate through huge vocabulary bases
• 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 2,500,000 words in the combined dictionaries, featuring synthesized voice for all included languages as well as comprehensive examples for use in real-life situations
• English phonetic transcription, essential tool for those learning to speak and write properly
• Vector Ultima™ spell-checker

Traveling:

• English <-> German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese 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 to improve your vocabulary while you play.
• Media Player with MP3 support to aid you in study and at play. Thousands of Audio Books are available to be programmed into this MP3 player.
• Currency and metric conversions
• World Time
• Daily Alarm
• Calculator
• … and more

This device is powered by AC/DC adapter and rechargeable battery pack.

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