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.

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.