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Site news archive
2008
| May 4, 2008 |
Picture Yourself Speaking Chinese and Russian!
With all the vocabulary you need to know to begin communicating in another language, it’s no wonder that many people don’t have the time or the patience to start at all. Thanks to the newest Picture Dictionaries for Pocket PC from LingvoSoft all that has changed and now anyone can get their message across instantly, and with absolutely no previous knowledge of a foreign language. As easy as pointing at the picture of the word you want to say, Picture Dictionaries contain thousands of full-color pictures stored on your Pocket PC that you can access anytime, anywhere. Especially useful for languages like Chinese and Russian, which use non Latin-based alphabets, Picture Dictionaries are so simple that even children can use them to understand and be understood in the most direct and intuitive manner possible. The talking versions even take it one step further by pronouncing the words for you in both languages so that you also get practice saying the words you need most to communicate effectively, comfortably and most importantly, immediately.
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| Apr 20, 2008 |
Unique Talking Dictionary Offers Instant Portable Translation
Long Island City, New York – ECTACO Inc., the leading US-based supplier of electronic handheld solutions for the public and private sector has just announced the release of a unique talking electronic dictionary. The new ECTACO Partner C-4 Professional Talking Electronic Dictionary & e-Book replicates the look of a traditional book but with some important distinctions. Providing users with a instant translations and learning tools, it stores volumes of conventionally printed dictionaries into a sleek portable device.
Featuring two hinged panels that open and close like a real book, twin high-resolution displays, a full keyboard for text input, and an extremely comprehensive database, the Partner C-4 is available to supply instant English, German, Russian, French, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Serbian, Albanian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Portuguese translations. Its state-of-the-art speech capabilities include a sophisticated combination of TTS (Text-To-Speech) voice synthesis and authentic native-speaker voice narration to pronounce each of its entries aloud for improved comprehension.
ECTACO President and CEO, David Lubinitsky, recently said “The Partner C-4 contains up to 1,000,000 entries and more of general vocabulary including special terminology’s requested by legal, medical and IT professions. This makes the Partner C-4 a truly functional and reliable partner whose helps is equally useful for students, travelers and businesspeople alike. Thousands of people have relied on it to help with exam preparation using the included utilities and learning games designed to let those taking important proficiency, college entrance, and citizenship tests to succeed.”
In addition to the dictionaries, the ECTACO Partner C-4 comes pre-loaded with 14,000 indispensable phrases that can be pronounced using speech that was originally recorded by authentic native speakers to make learning and communicating in another language easy and accurate. Fully customizable and expandable using content provided on SD cards, the standard C-Book package comes with a bonus CD containing over 150 linguistic applications, including translating Dictionaries, FlashCards, and PhraseBooks for 39 languages that can be used to improve anyone’s command of the world's most popular languages.
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| Apr 18, 2008 |
New LingvoSoft Titles For Your Visits East
LingvoSoft have just announced a whole new collection of talking PhraseBooks from their award-winning team of designers and linguists that help you navigate the Middle and Far East in comfort and style. Helping you lean how to speak the most useful 14,000 phrases needed to get by in any country, the all-new Learning Voice Phrasebooks are the most effective way to prepare for any trip abroad. Allowing you to understand and speak languages with different alphabets is part of the LingvoSoft mission and the new Windows PhraseBooks provide you with the tools you need to succeed. With advanced native-speaker voice pronunciation of all phrases, an extremely user-friendly interface with voice navigation and complete Vista compatibility, you now have access to everything you need to say what you want – and get it right the first time. Fully integrated with the entire Suite of 2008 LingvoSoft applications that also includes Text Translators, FlashCards learning games and extensive Talking Dictionaries, it has never been easier to enjoy foreign travel or learn a new language.
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| Apr 15, 2008 |
ECTACO (USA) and C Technologies (Sweden) brings a new generation of translating devices to the market.
Long Island City, NY and Lund, Sweden. April 15, 2008 – Another state-of-the-art addition to the award winning ECTACO iTRAVL series has just been released by collaborating Ectaco (USA) and C Technologies (Sweden) that will change the way we translate texts forever! This joint operation has led to the development of an ultimate translating package that consist of the ECTACO iTRAVL multilingual hand-held - a Windows CE operated device, and the C-Pen scanner that can scan and translate any written text you feed into it!
The NTL iTRAVL/C-Pen Deluxe edition is the first of it’s kind. Anyone, anywhere, and anytime can scan any text they find with the portable pen-like device and upload it instantly onto their iTRAVL for a full translation. Requested by students and government agencies alike, it is now easy to get full text translations into virtually any language. Just slide the C-Pen over any text and it will instantly appear on your iTRAVL for translation through the built-in Machine Translation system or smart dictionary module.
ECTACO, Inc. CEO David Lubinitsky recently announced that, "It is a new step in foreign language learning and translation. Aside of our Smart Keyboard and Multilingual Speech Recognition technology for data entry, customers have received a possibility to scan and translate words, sentences, paragraphs and entire text in the luxury of a University library or on a business trip. It brings the combination of these two products to new heights.”
Peter Johansson, CEO of C Technologies said: "The value of using C-Pen in the context of translation has been proven before and we are confident about the convenience the C-Pen will bring to users of the iTRAVL."
A new step in the world of mobile translation technology, the new iTRAVL/C-Pen Deluxe Edition will help dramatically to intensify mobile data collection and translation of foreign documents by various US agencies including the US Army and Police.
Find out more about the new NTL iTRAVL/C-Pen Deluxe Edition and the unlimited language learning opportunities here
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| Mar 28, 2008 |
Now Speak Like a Native – Instantly!
Providing users with the means to communicate easily, comfortably and effectively, Lingvo Talking Phrases 2008 offers the resources you need to succeed. With the release of new phrasebooks for new languages, and in new combinations, everyone is sure to find the tool they need to make speaking another language easier than ever before. Featuring 14,000 of the phrases most commonly used by international travelers, students and businesspeople, Lingvo Talking Phrases 2008 equips you to understand and be understood instantly in a variety of commonly encountered situations. With its unsurpassed speech recognition, native speaker voice narration and user friendly interface you will always be able to find and speak the phrase you need. Use it to improve your understanding, pronunciation and fluency and to make the most out of any language you want to speak. Instantly!
Learn all about LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 here:
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Bosnian for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> French for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Italian for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 Russian <-> Estonian for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Croatian for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Hebrew for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 Russian <-> Hebrew for Windows
LingvoSoft Learning Voice PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Albanian for Windows
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| Mar 21, 2008 |
New jetBook e-book reader from ECTACO set to change the way we read forever!
Long Island City, NY, 19 March 2008 - An astonishing new gadget has just been released by ECTACO Inc., the NY-based electronics giant, that will change the way we read forever! Known for making award-winning handheld translators that have done more than any other company for taking translation, travel and learning into the 21st century, has now unveiled a device that is set to do the same for reading. Kiss your old-fashioned, dusty library goodbye and say hello to the jetBook – the clean, smart, eco-friendly way to read. Get ready to have more space on your shelves at home, in your luggage when you travel, and on your bedside table too.
jetBook is an incredibly sophisticated e-book reader with a built-in mp3 player that allows users to listen to AudioBooks as well as keep up with their reading. Preloaded with translating dictionaries, you can simultaneously enjoy a good book, improve your vocabulary by looking up and translating any words you want, listen to your favorite audio files and check out photos - all in the same device! With an incredibly simple to read, large 5-inch, high-resolution display that is easy on the eyes, users can now read for hours without the eyestrain that comes from ordinary computer screens. And those with trouble reading normal-sized print books will benefit from the different fonts and sizes you can change to instantly. Weighing in at a remarkable 7 ounces, the super-slim device fits easily in the palm of your hand for a truly comfortable reading experience.
ECTACO, Inc. President and CEO David Lubinitsky recently announced that, “The new jetBook now makes it possible to carry around a complete library – from novels to technical documents, even children’s books and poetry. This completely amazing device lets you sit down and read more comfortably than ever before. It really is the book of the future and fully eco-friendly. Not a single tree was cut down to make it!”
With thousands of books that can be downloaded for free, filling the “shelves” of this universal library should present no challenges. The only problem will be trying to decide which books you want from the vast resources now available online. Just download and read what you want, whenever you want it!
To find out more about the new jetBook and the unlimited opportunities for reading in the 21st century visit www.jetbook.net
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| Feb 28, 2008 |
LingvoSoft is 100% Vista Ready – Are You?
A whole host of new LingvoSoft Dictionaries 2008 for Windows have just been released to let you translate, learn and communicate in some of the worlds most sought after languages. Available in Russian, Hebrew, Azerbaijani, Turkish, and Armenian the newest translating dictionaries are completely Windows Vista ready and come in both talking and non-talking versions. With a choice of user interface that now offers 10 different languages, the new dictionaries are truly one of a kind. Containing all the latest updates to the dictionary databases, extended functionality and unique features that make getting the most out of these incredible resources both fast and intuitive, users now have the opportunity to translate, understand and be understood faster and more completely than ever before. For use at home, at work, or at school, LingvoSoft Dictionary 2008 for Windows is a sophisticated linguistic tool that virtually guarantees success.
Learn more about the new LingvoSoft Dictionary 2008 for Windows here:
LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Armenian for Windows
LingvoSoft Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Azerbaijani for Windows
LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Azerbaijani for Windows
LingvoSoft Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Hebrew for Windows
LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Hebrew for Windows
LingvoSoft Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Turkish for Windows
LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 Russian <-> Turkish for Windows
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| Feb 18, 2008 |
Snow White and Ready For Action – New ECTACO iTRAVL Alpine Turns Heads from Alaska to Albania and the Beijing Olympic Games!
14 February 2008 - ECTACO iTRAVL, the intelligent handheld travel companion invented by ECTACO Inc. of New York, has just become a whole lot more fashionable. Not only does this remarkable gadget that won the coveted 2008 Consumer Electronic Show Innovations Award take you around the world and back, it now does it in style and can send you on a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games!
The newly released iTRAVL Alpine is already winning envious looks from all the fashion mavens from 5th Avenue to the Champs Elysees. But stunning as the outside of this revolutionary device may be, the sexy exterior is nothing compared to what is packed inside. Designed to help anyone communicate and navigate a foreign language in no time at all, the iTRAVL Alpine is the world’s first 2-way, hands-free travel assistant that takes the worry out of foreign travel for good.
ECTACO CEO and President David Lubinitsky described it as, “A true step forward for every single person who has ever traveled to another country. With near limitless options for customization, a revolutionary combination of speech recognition and native speaker voice output that understands what you say, the iTRAVL Alpine does all the talking for you. With devices available in the world’s most popular languages and a built-in private language teacher, you are guaranteed to be speaking any language you choose before the plane even touches down. Now we’re even going to pay for your flight as well! With any purchase of the 13 language NTL-13AS or the Chinese NTL-2Ch, you will automatically be entered to win a full trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and enjoy the iTRAVL Alpine and environment simultaneously!”
Pre-loaded with tons of extras, these are no mere bells and whistles. Everything placed into the iTRAVL Alpine is a result of careful consideration and the highest design standards. Starting with the Fodor’s Travel Guide and CIA Factbook that give you exhaustive information on your destination - from restaurants to per-capita income - to the media player that lets you tour the sights with AudioTours or listen to your favorite AudioBooks, users will find everything they need to make travel the enjoyable experience it was always meant to be.
Available in hundreds of different language combinations from two language bilingual models all the way to 19 language multilinguals that will see you safely to the world’s most exotic destinations, the iTRAVL Alpine is the first choice for those stylish enough to know what they want - and who want the very best.
For more information about the all-new iTRAVL Alpine and a chance to win a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games visit www.itravl.net
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| Feb 4, 2008 |
ECTACO iTRAVL SHINES AT CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
NY-based ECTACO INC., known internationally for developing some of the most advanced handheld translation solutions in the world, emerged from the recent International Consumer Electronic Show held in Las Vegas January 7-10 as the clear winner when it came to innovation, usability and sheer ‘wow’ factor.
Even before the fair started, Ectaco had been honored for its newest travel and language-learning device, the remarkable iTRAVL NTL-9C. Walking away with the coveted Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award award, Ectaco demonstrated once again how their proven combination of technical know-how, superior design and customer-centered approach trumped the competition when it came to being the ‘must-have’ item of the fair.
Containing just about everything the smart business or leisure traveler needs to make visiting foreign destination an easily navigated experience, the 2-way hands-free travel companion was attracting people in droves to see what all the fuss was about. Offering users a unique combination of human voice enabled talking translator and phrasebook that both understands what is said to it and speaks translations aloud.
Using real human voice output the device also acts as a personal language tutor and travel guide rolled into one with destination information provided by world-renowned Fodor’s and the CIA. With its more than 5,000,000 words and 70,000 phrases accessed via the most intuitive and robust multilingual interfaces the iTRAVL NTL-9C is in a class of its own providing a new piece of technology that is both stylish and practical.
Ectaco Inc. president and CEO David Lubinitsky was proud of all the attention the device was getting and said, “We knew we had a winner even when were still at the planning stages but to see the device being used as it was intended, and bringing smiles of wonder to people’s faces, is more enjoyable than we ever imagined. People from all walks of life and from different countries who would never have been able to communicate before now have a chance to get to know one another. We even had a couple use the iTRAVL to arrange a date and two businessmen used the iTRAVL to close a deal! Now that’s progress.”
iTRAVL NTL in CES 2008: Video report
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| Feb 1, 2008 |
Depend on LingvoSoft To Make Your Trip A Success
Now, with just a little help from LingvoSoft, you and your Pocket PC can go anywhere together and make new friends, do more business, and have more fun! With the release of the all-new LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 for the world’s most popular languages, the sky’s the limit. Once installed on your handheld, this remarkable communication utility will let you understand and be understood in almost any situation. How? By doing the talking for you! Featuring 14,000 of the phrases you need most when traveling abroad, LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 takes all the worry out of international travel instantly. That’s because with its robust combination of speech-activated navigation, powerful processing ability and authentic native speaker voice output of all entries you will never be left guessing again. Completely windows Mobile 6.0 ready, this application is so streamlined it will even work quickly and efficiently on older devices. Available to help you out in Everyday Conversation, when Traveling, Shopping, Sightseeing, and more, the phrases are divided into 15 easily navigated areas for maximum efficiency. And as part of the revolutionary LingvoSoft Suite 2008 it is the perfect compliment to the translating Dictionaries and FlashCards that have made LingvoSoft a household name around the world. So go ahead, take the plunge, and immerse yourself in another language today with LingvoSoft as you’re your most reliable travel companion.
Learn more about the new LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 for Pocket PC here:
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Polish for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Portuguese for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Romanian for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Russian for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Serbian for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Slovak for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Spanish for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Swedish for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Tagalog for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Thai for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Turkish for Pocket PC
LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook 2008 English <-> Ukrainian for Pocket PC
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| Jan 9, 2008 |
CES 2008
Welcome to Ectaco booth at Central Hall, Booth No. 15749 Jan. 7-10, Las Vegas
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