phone native pinyin->character input seems fine now? Google keyboard and iphone's keyboard for pinyin->characters works fine. If you're using normal mandarin.

phone native pinyin->character input seems fine now? Google keyboard and iphone's keyboard for pinyin->characters works fine. If you're using normal mandarin. Windows OS pinyin->character input.... I don't know if I've ever seen someone use something other than Sogou lol, so honestly I can't say how good or bad windows native is at this now. It's a hard problem, because of the 1:many fanout for any given pinyin input. "bao" can mean like 40 different things - bread thing, weak (?), hug, violence (?), treasured-one (think like "my precious", like a pet name for a baby?), etc etc. Sogou had a big leg up for a long time because it figured out the correct words from context much better than other alternatives, requiring fewer manual selections. (semi-related note, google's voice->text still fails pretty hard for regional mandarin. For example it really doesn't like the hard Rs at the end of words in far northeastern mandarin. It can't seem to figure out that "baoERRRR" is actually just "bao". That problem doesn't exist for pinyin->characters though)