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ArER430T User's Manual

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................3

General View........................................................................................3

Power Supply.......................................................................................4

Initialization ..........................................................................................5

Keyboard..............................................................................................6

Display .................................................................................................7

Main Menu ...........................................................................................8

DICTIONARY ............................................................................................8

USER'S DICTIONARY ............................................................................11

GRAMMAR..............................................................................................13

PHRASEBOOK .......................................................................................13

ABOUT ARMENIA...................................................................................13

POPULAR IDIOMS .................................................................................14

IRREGULAR VERBS ..............................................................................14

PHONES .................................................................................................14

SCHEDULE.............................................................................................15

CALCULATOR ........................................................................................16

METRIC CONVERSION .........................................................................17

CURRENCY CONVERSION...................................................................17

HANGMAN WORD GAME......................................................................17

WORLD TIME .........................................................................................18

LOCAL TIME...........................................................................................18

PC-LINK ..................................................................................................19

SETUP ....................................................................................................20

Interface language .............................................................................20

Advanced search ...............................................................................20

Slang lock...........................................................................................20

Russian keyboard mode ....................................................................20

Key tone.............................................................................................21

Clock ..................................................................................................21

Date format ........................................................................................21

Time format........................................................................................21

Schedule alarm ..................................................................................22

Daily alarm .........................................................................................22

Summary of content (24 pages)

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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................3 General View........................................................................................3 Power Supply.......................................................................................4 Initialization ..........................................................................................5 Keyboard..................................................
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Memory check....................................................................................22 Data deletion......................................................................................22 Set password .....................................................................................22 Security mode ....................................................................................23 Set contrast...............................................................
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing the Partner® ArER430T! This product is the result of the combined efforts of Ectaco’s staff of linguists, engineers, and programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance integrated linguistic systems available. The Partner® ArER430T features: Main vocabulary (English Armenian, English Russian, Armenian Russian bidirectional dictionaries) of approx.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Power Supply The ArER430T is powered by two AAA (LR03) batteries. When the batteries become weak, a warning message will be displayed. In order to prevent an excessive discharge of the batteries and resulting loss of data in RAM, the Say function will be disabled if battery power is low. To restore full functionality of the device and to avoid risk of losing user data, replace the complete set of batteries as soon as possible. Do not mix old and new batteries.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual It is recommended to use an external power supply while using the speech and PC-Link functions. How to replace the batteries Ensure the power is off. Press ON/OFF to turn the device off. Never try to remove batteries from the device when the power is on. This can seriously damage the device. If you experience difficulty turning the device off, press the RESET button on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over the O button) and reset the system.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual The System initialized! message indicates that system initialization has been completed and the factory defined default settings have been restored. Keyboard The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with Armenian and Russian standard layouts. To enter the Armenian letters marked at the top of the buttons, press ALT+ the desired button.1 To enter the Russian letters З,Э,Ж,Б,Ю,Ъ from two-lettered buttons, press ALT+ the desired button.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Other shortcut keys open sections corresponding to the marks over the buttons (press SHIFT+ shortcut key; for example, SHIFT+DICT). Control and edit keys , Move cursor / highlight / switch main menu , Highlight / scroll lines / switch main menu / change values. Use to switch between the Insert and Overwrite modes.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Horizontal scrolling enabled Main Menu The ArER430T MAIN MENU consists of 16 functional icons, which visually organize access to the dictionary's sections. To display the MAIN MENU, turn the device on, or close a current section. Move between icons using , or , . To open a section, whose icon is highlighted, press ENTER.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual If the Advanced Search mode is turned ON, the headword closest in spelling to the portion you have entered so far will be displayed under the input line. When the desired word is displayed, press ENTER to see its translation(s). If the Advanced Search mode is OFF, your Dictionary work will be faster (see Page 20). Use: • , to scroll through the translations • t, u to switch between adjacent entries.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Certain words and expressions in the dictionary are marked with the following abbreviations: sl. – slang зоол. – zoology сл. – slang авиа – aviation карт. – cards спорт. – sport анат. – anatomy кино – cinema стомат. – stomatology арх. – archaic лингв. – linguistics стр. – building архит. – architecture мат. – mathematics театр. – theatre астр. – astronomy мед. – medicine текст. – textile биол. – biology метал. – metallurgy тех. – technical бот. – botany метео.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Spell-checker Vector Ultima When you are unsure of the spelling of a word, the multilingual spell-checker Vector Ultima will help you. Type the word as you hear it. For example, “foll” for “fall”. Press SHIFT+SPELLER (SHIFT and either of the t, u buttons). A list of suggested variants appears on the screen. Select the desired word and press ENTER. If the spell-checker is unable to suggest alternative words, the No variants message is shown.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Creating a Record When in a record list, press ENTER to open a new record template. If the dictionary is empty, a new record template will be opened automatically. Type in a word or expression. Press ENTER. Set the target language by using Type in a translation(s). . Press ENTER again. Choose an appropriate abbreviation of the part of speech by using Press ENTER. , . The record will be saved and you will return to the records list.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual GRAMMAR The ArER430T contains the English Grammar section. The Grammar is shown in English, regardless of the selected Interface language. Press SHIFT+GRAM to enter the Grammar section. The Grammar contains three-level hierarchical menus. You can reach a menu’s third level by consecutively selecting topics from the menu. PHRASEBOOK The phrasebook contains over 1,100 phrases in the English, Armenian, and Russian languages.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual POPULAR IDIOMS Over 200 widely used American idioms and their equivalents or translations are included in the Popular Idioms section. Press SHIFT+IDIOMS to enter the Popular Idioms section. Type the first letter of the desired idiom and scroll through the list to find it. Use to switch between Armenian and Russian translations. IRREGULAR VERBS All commonly used English irregular verbs are stored in alphabetical order in the Irregular Verbs section.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Creating a Record To open a new record template, press ENTER when you are in the record list. If there are no records stored, a new record template will be opened automatically when you enter the list. Select the English, Armenian, or Russian input mode by using . Start filling out the Name page. To open the next page, press ENTER. To return to the previous page, press ESC. It is necessary to complete the Name page to continue to the subsequent pages.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual The first page of a record includes information on Date, Time and the audible Reminder. Date and Time specify the moment of the Schedule alarm operation. The Reminder specifies the time period before a Schedule alarm is issued. The second page – Content – includes information about the event. Set the date and time and specify the time period before a Schedule alarm is issued. Select the English, Armenian, or Russian input mode by using .
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual METRIC CONVERSION With the ArER430T you may easily convert measurements from the BritishAmerican system into the metric system commonly used in Europe and vice versa, as well as convert within each system. Enter the Metric Conversion section. Choose a subsection by pressing , . Press ENTER. Input the value. There may be more than four units of measure in the subsection.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Once the language is chosen, a new game will begin. Try to guess letters in the word by entering them from the keyboard. If you guess a letter correctly, it will appear in place of an asterisk in the word. The number displayed shows the number of tries remaining. When playing, press ENTER to display the translation of the hidden word (which will count as one try). To hide the translation, press ESC.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual PC-LINK Using the ArER430T PC-Link cable (available separately as a part of the Communication Package) and the PC-Link software (provided in the standard package on a CD-ROM) you may exchange data between your ArER430T and a personal computer. This feature will allow you to keep a backup copy of the Telephones, Schedule, and User’s Dictionaries data on your PC. Software Insert the supplied CD into the CD-ROM drive of a PC.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual To receive data, select the Receive data transfer mode. Press ENTER, and the transfer will begin. The time span between the data transfer startup on the PC and the device must not exceed 30 sec. Note that in the Receive data mode, the newly transferred data will replace the old information saved in the corresponding sections of your device. In case if empty sections are transferred, all data in the corresponding sections of the ArER430T will be erased.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters in accordance with the keyboard marks. Russian phonetic mode allows you to enter Russian letters by their phonetic consonance with English letters, e.g. you can press the F button to enter the Russian letter “Ф”. Key tone This feature is designed to produce a short beep every time you press a key on the device’s keyboard. The key tone is turned ON by default.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Schedule alarm In this subsection you can turn the Schedule alarm ON or OFF. If turned on, which is the default setting, the Schedule alarm will go off at the date and time of the Schedule record, producing an audible beep. Daily alarm Enter the Daily alarm subsection. The default values are midnight, 00:00, and OFF. Use: • , to switch between hours and minutes • A, P to specify AM or PM • u, t to turn the alarm ON/OFF. Press ENTER to save changes.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Retype the password for confirmation. Press ENTER. Always remember your password. If you forget it, you will have to reset the system, which will cause irrevocable loss of user data. Changing the password Enter the Set password subsection. Input the current password. Press ENTER. Specify a new password. Press ENTER. Retype the password for confirmation. Press ENTER to save the password. Clearing the password Enter the Set password subsection. Input the current password.
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Partner® ArER430T User's Manual Set sleep time The automatic power off has a preset delay of 3 minutes. This feature saves battery life by shutting down the device after a specified period of inactivity. The adjustable range is from 1 to 5 minutes.