You can now freely speak whatever you want, and be understood. A palm-size device powerful enough to translate what you want, where you want, any time you want. That's what over 22 years of research and development has led up to.

The English <-> French Ectaco Partner LUX is the most advanced unit ever created while maintaining a user friendly interface, touchscreen, and a full QWERTY convertible keyboard. The sleek, lightweight (only 10.8 oz) design fits in your pocket and the brilliant 5" LCD delivers incredible viewing quality.

FREE SPEECH TRANSLATION

You spoke, we listened. With all the requests for a standalone free speech device, we put years of research and development to work making it available on the Ectaco Partner LUX*. You can finally speak into the device in English or any other language and have it translate what you say into French and vice versa. From meetings with your board of directors in France to getting together with the girl of your dreams, the English <-> French Ectaco Partner LUX not only breaks language barriers, it demolishes them.

FULL TEXT TRANSLATOR

Simply type any sentence you want and have it translated both ways at a touch of a button! Our unique translation system will even pronounce everything for you in English or French using the latest text-to-speech voice synthesis.

LANGUAGE LEARNING, DICTIONARIES, AND PHRASEBOOKS

What we do best, all pre-loaded. You get the English <-> French Language Teacher, Talking English <-> French Dictionary, Academic size English dictionary, English <-> French Audio Phrasebook and more right out of the box:

Language Teacher:

The courses are fully interactive and replicate realistic interactions. It immerses you in the language and works with you at your own pace.

The 4 levels include thorough lessons of:

• Alphabet
• Words
• Phrases
• Dialogues

Each set is loaded with an advanced speech recognition system so you get a detailed view and correction of your pronunciation each time. You can backtrack lessons and restart the entire learning process as often as you like with no limit.

Dictionary Features:

Comprehensive and fully bidirectional English <-> French vocabulary database of over 615,000 words/phrases.

• Translations complete with parts of speech, gender, comments, transcriptions, and examples
• Advanced TTS (text-to-speech) functionality
• Fluent human-voice pronunciation of English and French words
• Multi-lingual display options
• Quick copy and translate (translates a selected word in other application with just one click)
• Input Line search finds any word matching the sequence of symbols you enter
• History function to view and select previously entered words

PhraseBook Features:

• 14,000 most commonly used phrases
• Authentic human voice narration for both languages
• 15 easily navigated topic-areas
• Advanced speech recognition for hands-free navigation
• Quick search using key words

ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

• Smart QWERTY and Virtual Keyboard with voice input
• Talking Picture Dictionary with pronunciation for all words
• UT183 Cross Translator for 183 languages all built-in
• English Grammar course, American Idioms and Irregular Verbs
• TOEFL Preparation - offers materials to help you prepare for the TOEFL iBT® test
• US Citizenship test - practice the USCIS Citizenship Civics Test
• eReader - professional eBook reader
• Games: Chess, Virtual Table Tennis 3D, Dominoes, True Or False Trivia, Connect'm Free & Sudoku Free
• Video player with AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP support
• Voice Recorder
• Calculator
• microSD and microSDHC card support of up to 32 GB
• Powered by Android OS
• And much more!

You can also download additional Ectaco language applications directly from Ectaco website and more than 250,000 free apps available via 1 Mobile Market to the Ectaco Partner LUX electronic translator.

AC/DC adapter, rechargeable battery, stylus and USB cable are included in the standard package.

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