- 1 million-word vocabulary
- Pronounces words in spoken English
- Advanced 2 MB organizer with business and personal directories
- Send faxes; send and receive e-mail
- Automatic translation of e-mail
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The ER586HT English/Russian dictionary features a high-quality English speech synthesizer with pronunciation and accent correcting, an English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary with more than 1 million words, an easy-to-use backlit touch screen, the Socrat translating system, and a data exchange program for use with your PC. (Note that the ER586HT does not pronounce words in Russian.)
The ER586HT lets you send faxes and send and receive e-mail using E-mail Around-the-Globe, and you can translate the e-mail automatically. You can use the digital voice recorder to record personal memos. The tourist phrase book translates up to 10,000 English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Dutch words into Russian. A phone book lists area codes for more than 2,000 cities in Russia, the United States, and other countries.
You can customize the dictionary with new words by typing them on the keyboard or downloading them from your PC. The ER586HT's dictionary offers built-in English grammar rules, a real-time Test of English as a Foreign Language course, English sentence construction, frequently used phrases, 18 sections of specialized reference, and a list of irregular verbs and American idioms.
The built-in organizer includes both business and personal directories, an electronic notepad with one-touch search, and an option for sending documents by e-mail or fax. A scheduler with a memo option also supports data exchange with your PC. You can store a list of important dates and view your calendar. The ER586HT supports a shorthand writing system and a drawing board for sketches--and you can even send your sketches by fax.
Additional options include a traveler's guide, horoscopes, a game center with four popular games, a U.S. citizenship exam, a math and engineering calculator, a personal account manager, a loan calculator, math formulas, currency and metric conversion, a database of English names, clothes and footwear sizes, and an option to upload text files.
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This English-Russian talking dictionary ER586HT contains 1,000,000 words, instant reverse translation. Advanced technologies of high-level English speech reproduction and automatic English<->Russian sentence translation are possible with this model. The section of English language learning includes an electronic English grammar book, an interactive phonetic practice with accent correction, English irregular verbs, a comprehensive TOEFL guide with sample tests, and a personal word list for easy learning. Its resource materials incorporate an enormous amount of information including over 1000 useful phrases arranged by subject-matter. These include checking into a hotel, shopping, visiting a bank and much more. To increase your vocabulary, 200 idioms are included as well as the enjoyable Hangman word-learning game (4 language learning games). Bilingual personal organizer with fax and e-mail capability, and a shorthand function, reference system, travel guide; World time, Local time, Daily alarm, Reminder, calculator, Currency and Metric conversion. Digital voice recorder with 12-minute recording limit. Bilingual bidirectional dictionaries including colloquial expressions and idioms. 1,100 useful phrases grouped into 12 topics for easy navigation. English speech synthesis in all dictionaries. Extensive specialized terminology base. The award-winning Vector Ultima spell-checking system. Full Text Translation system. New words recording function will allow you to customize your dictionary. Graphic touch-screen display 240x128. Size: 6.1 x 3.3 x 1.0 in, 155x85x25 mm. Weight: 4 oz. Battery Type: 2 x AAA batteries, included. Extensive vocabulary, multilingual keyboard support, dialogs for language study, phrase bank will help you communicate with utmost efficiency. Note: the screen does not have the back light. See Ectaco ER-V6 or SpeechGuard TL-2R for English<->Russian electronic talking dictionaries with backlight.
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Everything is as advertised, but unnecessarily expensive,
This review is from: Ectaco ER586HT English/Russian Talking Electronic Dictionary (Office Product)
This machine has about !zillion! features and functions, most of which are quite useless at all times (e.g. pointless games, only one of which has anything to do with building-up English vocabulary). I did not have the machine long enough to see, whether it would work well for a long period of time or not. So, it might or might not be very durable, I do not know... The voice that pronounces English words is Ok for an American person(huh?), but not the best for a person, who tries to study English with its help. I'd say that the company does a great job putting together things like this dictionary, but it should work on something less expensive (even if it means less versatile), less fragile, and 100% practical for the price paid. They included Russian-English grammar book/phrasebook, CDROM for working in Russian on your computer, all of which I suppose added to the price. I think that less stuff for lesser value would be better, for people who need a good talking bi-lingual dictionary, istead of some super-machine that does it all.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Years of practical service,
By Mak Thorpe "makthorpe" (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ectaco ER586HT English/Russian Talking Electronic Dictionary (Office Product)
There is one negative review commenting on bad buttons/ poor manufacture. This is completely counter to our family's experience. My wife, her mother and sister all have one of these translators and find them to be rugged and problem free. My wife has had hers for what must be 3 years now. 95% of my wife's usage is single word translations and seldom uses full sentence or pronunciation features. Although she is quite fluent, she still uses it often when she comes across odd words in some books, or needs an equivalent of a technical or other very precise term she only knows in Russian. Her mother and sister are less fluent and use sentence translation and pronunciation much more often. Oddly, the men hardly ever use the translator. No one uses the other organizer features on the unit. We favor this unit rather than the 486 model due to its larger dictionary. A side benefit is that looks much nicer with its leather like case and attractive silver styling. The pronunciation is useful for beginning to intermediate speakers, because it gives you an idea of the kind of sound you should try to make. However, it has the typical computer robotic sound to it- do not expect anything like a recording of actual human speakers. It turns out this robotic accent is not important- the big problems I've found for Russians first speaking English would be solved if they listenned to this unit pronouncing the word for them. Also do not have super high expectations for the sentence translator. It is not a fault of Ectaco- Machine translation is a very hard problem and no one has a translator you can trust completely. The translator is very handy and can be used to give someone some hints about what you are trying to communicate. But don't expect to get it right more than 70% of the time. Some checks you can do to verify the translation is to try translating the english words back into russian and see if most of the meanings are the one you intended. If the word has too many different or possibly disasterous meanings, obviously it might be a good idea to substitute a russian synonym to get an english word translation with less chance of creating confusion. Obviously this is a lot of work, and it is probably unnecessary to go to this much trouble in typical situations. Just to give you an idea, my mother in law regularly went into the city to go shopping and at that time knew only a few english phrases. Armed with this translator (and a cell phone for emergencies)- she found it easy to complete all her tasks. She only had to call us once to explain some complicated detail to a salesperson. We bought the accessories for this (that allow you to hook to a computer) but I'd suggest that you hold off and buy them only if you really think you would use them. We tried them but never got much value from them. We strongly suggest using NIMH (nickel metal hydride) rechargeable batteries. This will save you huge amounts of money if you use the translator a lot. Radio shack has good quality ones. We have tried other generic brands, but they most failed after several charges. Hope these notes help.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poor quality and terrible support,
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This review is from: Ectaco ER586HT English/Russian Talking Electronic Dictionary (Office Product)
I bought ER586HT English/Russian from Ectaco and it was inoperable out of the box. Some buttons did not work at all. The store only had 7 days return policy so I had to bring it to the Ectaco store in Queens, NY. I was told they would call me within 2 weeks. It took me 5 weeks and multiple calls to get a replacement which... had the same problem. Now it has been 3 weeks again, no word from Ectaco.Summary: good product idea, very poor implementation, absolutely the worst warranty and customer service I have ever seen.
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