NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ectaco iTRAVL NTL-9C Talking 2-way Multilingual Language Communicator and Electronic Dictionary has been selected as an Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award honoree in the Personal Electronics product category for the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show. Being held in Las Vegas from January 7-10, 2008, the iTRAVL was singled out from thousands of competing new products and was personally chosen by the Consumer Electronics Association as being one of the best technologies of the year.
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With the new iTRAVL device, Ectaco has taken usability and convenience a step further to provide everything necessary to visit dozens of different countries without dragging along a single bulky dictionary or phrasebook. That's because the new NTL-9C provides travelers with the tools they need to make their trips more comfortable, communication more effective, and to help build relationship between both business and romantic partners. The multilingual iTRAVL offers users of all ages and skill levels a true revolution in modern handheld translation technology with Language Teacher. The latest speech recognition based Language Teacher provides a superior real time visual evaluation and testing system, real human native speaker voice output and sophisticated TTS (text-to-speech) functionality to translate between English and Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and back. Fully-loaded with all the extras, iTRAVL comes complete with the Fodor's Travel Guide, including maps and essential information for 50 cities, as well as a CIA World Factbook for tons of information on 180 countries worldwide, games, travel guides and a music player. Powered by Windows CE, it now accepts third party programs as well as plug-in peripheral devices.
This is not the first time the NY-based electronic translation giant has been recognized for its outstanding design and innovation. Ectaco Inc. has been leading the field for over a decade with its software division LingvoSoft, receiving numerous awards for their innovations including several Pocket PC Magazine awards as well as an earlier acknowledgment from the Consumer Electronics Association.
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