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Ectaco XL-1500 Partner Multilingual Talking Dictionary |  | Brand: Ectaco
Category: CE
Buy New: $99.00
as of 9/3/2010 16:33 CDT details
New (14) from $99.00
Seller: Compu-R-Us
Rating:  10 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 2.1
MPN: XL-1500
Model: XL-1500
UPC: 789981608015
EAN: 0789981608015
ASIN: B000J1VA2C
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Unlimited TTS voice function in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish in the dictionary | | • | Reverse translation | | • | Multiple input methods for typing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian entries | | • | Look-up function | | • | Award-winning Vector Ultima spell-checking system |
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Product Description
Enjoy the whole world in your hands. The newest addition to the world-famous Partner range is also one of the most sophisticated. Featuring an absolutely unique combination of language pairs and voice output capabilities, it is the only handheld dictionary to contain synthesized TTS (text-to-speech) functionality in English, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish within the same device. A giant leap forward for modern electronic translation, the ECTACO Partner XL-1500 Multilingual Talking Dictionary is absolutely one-of-a-kind. Never before has it been so easy to communicate in so many languages. Thanks to its advanced synthesized voice output capabilities, the Partner XL-1500 makes traveling almost anywhere in the world enjoyable and all your communication effective. Its ability to speak translations aloud using the latest TTS modules lets it act as your own personal language assistant and interpreter. With an astonishing vocabulary database of over 3,367,000 words, you will always find something to say. And the inclusion of a 14-topic phrasebook containing travel-related words and phrases means that it can also speak 31,000 phrases in 15 languages to help get your message across in almost any situation. All the features are accessed via an intelligent, user-friendly interface and are located quickly using the fastest and smartest search functions yet deployed. Exceptionally powerful, effective, and affordable, the Partner XL-1500 is the first choice for outstanding international communication. Phonetic transcription for English and Romanization for Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean Metric and currency converters World time clock Slang lock External power jack for AC operation Headphone jack Number of words - over 3,367,000 Size - 5.3 x 2.3 x 0.5 in Weight - 4 oz Battery Type - 2 x
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 Great multilanguage dictionary April 12, 2010
L. foster (seattle)
Great price especially for traveling, I used it for looking up Korean and all the words I wanted to find were there. The speaking part is bad it is very robotic and even hard to understand what it was saying in English let alone another language, but if you can point to the word or say it in the other language you'll be fine. It took me about 15 min to have ease with all the buttons and what they do. **Don't count on the phrase book to help you any - that's bad! I recommend getting a small phrase book and memorizing then when you are traveling and you forget certain words look it up on this dictionary. I even called customer support for a question I had and they were very helpful. Remember to get the speaking part to press the shift button then the speaker button next ( this isn't that clear on the directions) you can press for either language you want.
XL 1500 Ectaco Partner January 9, 2010
Steve (Sunnyvale, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a fairly favorable view of the "XL 1500, 15 Languages Talking Dictionary." I have been translating the Russian novel The Twelve Chairs and have found it very helpful. It does not have all the vocabulary that is in the novel, but it has a great deal of it. I have been able to move much quicker thru the book using this electronic dictionary, and using a regular paper dictionary as a backup. It has made reading the novel much more enjoyable and quicker.
On the negative side, the keys are very small and often you have to hit them two or three times to get the letter you want to show up on the screen. However,once you start to type a word it may recognize what you want after only putting in three or four letters, and you can get the meaning immediately without having to thumb thru a paper dictionary. I also felt the manual was not too good, but it did have the basic information there. After a week or so of working with the keyboard, I have been able to access the dictionary quite easily. The robotic voice is not good at all, but it does have correct pronunciations of the soft sound in Russian and the accents on the syllables seem to be correct. But it is true if you just listen to the word without knowing it ahead of time, you will not recognize it. We tested this in Spanish also with our son-in-law who speaks Spanish. He could not recognize the words, and he is a native speaker. Also I think it is a little pricey, but overall I find it useful for what I am doing.
Steve
 bad December 22, 2008
Sameer M. Alnajdi (Terre Haute, IN USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
they told we can use it for Dictionary: English, Arabic but it's without arabic litter
awful company October 9, 2008
Kisuk Colon (Centreville, VA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have a terrible experience with ECTACO's electronic dictionary. It was a total waste of my money. I needed a portable dictionary so I bought it directly through ECTACO's web-site, but it was... a trash, very infantry vocabulary determinations and didn't even have almost half of the vocabularies that I needed to find. What more frustrated me was that awful customer service when I tried to return the product. What a reluctant attitude toward return policy service was! They never sent the paper with a return policy in a packet with was within 30 days acception, not only that they told me to call back again and again and made me pass 30 days. Watch out folks! I am a college student working full time still trying to pay off the dept from that terrible dictionary that was not returnable nor helpful at all. I am So sad.
disappointing September 18, 2008
mizzim (chicago)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I ordered the XL1500 because I am moving to China for my business. Unfortunately, I had to return the product. The voice feature is so poor, I could barely recognize the english speaking voice, much less the chinese voice. The french, spanish, and german voices were not too bad. I was also disappointed that I could not figure out how to enter pinyin chinese and radical chinese characters, even after reading the poorly written manual three times. The clincher for me was that the headphone jack did not work, it just muted the voice feature altogether. The unit does have an AC jack, but does not come with an AC adaptor. I called Ace Photo to return the product and was informed of the 10% restocking fee.
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