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Is it possible to add traditional characters for mandarin? Also the pinyin for 誰/谁 is coming through as shuí, whilst this character has two pronounciations, I

by jrrv 3mo ago

Is it possible to add traditional characters for mandarin? Also the pinyin for 誰/谁 is coming through as shuí, whilst this character has two pronounciations, I believe shéi is the more common one.

alder 3mo ago
Thanks! Chinese and Japanese as source languages are still experimental, I did my best to support them but I have to rely on people who actually know the language and this kind of feedback is really useful. I'll look into adding traditional characters and fixing the pinyin.
- jrrv 3mo ago
  No worries, I appreciate the effort. I did go back and listen and they are indeed pronouncing sheí in the audio too. I use a firefox extension to convert simplified to traditional, looks like it's open source so that may be of some use to you: https://github.com/tongwentang/tongwentang-extension https://github.com/tongwentang/tongwentang-extension. Although there are some clashes that it does not handle, e.g. 隻 and 只 are both 只 in simplified, you just have to know which one it is from context, but the extension fails to convert to 隻 where appropriate.
  - alder 3mo ago
    Thanks, really useful extension link. Proper traditional support probably needs a context aware layer, not a plain lookup. I will experiment with additional LLM enrichment. Appreciate you digging into this!
  - alder 3mo ago
    I deployed a new release with a Simplified/Traditional switch at the top of the workspace. Thanks for the OpenCC link. Please let me know if anything's off.
the_gastropod 3mo ago
+1 this request! I'd been dreaming about trying to make something almost exactly like this app, but have absolutely no clue how to even begin going about it. You've nailed it! I've been manually cropping out audio clips from Audacity, and grabbing the relevant translations from my textbook PDF's to make Anki cards that look 3.5% as nice as yours do. Really nice work on this!
- alder 3mo ago
  Simplified/Traditional support is now deployed. Really glad you like it, thanks!

by jrrv 3mo ago

alder 3mo ago

Thanks! Chinese and Japanese as source languages are still experimental, I did my best to support them but I have to rely on people who actually know the language and this kind of feedback is really useful. I'll look into adding traditional characters and fixing the pinyin.

jrrv 3mo ago
No worries, I appreciate the effort. I did go back and listen and they are indeed pronouncing sheí in the audio too. I use a firefox extension to convert simplified to traditional, looks like it's open source so that may be of some use to you: https://github.com/tongwentang/tongwentang-extension https://github.com/tongwentang/tongwentang-extension. Although there are some clashes that it does not handle, e.g. 隻 and 只 are both 只 in simplified, you just have to know which one it is from context, but the extension fails to convert to 隻 where appropriate.
- alder 3mo ago
  Thanks, really useful extension link. Proper traditional support probably needs a context aware layer, not a plain lookup. I will experiment with additional LLM enrichment. Appreciate you digging into this!
- alder 3mo ago
  I deployed a new release with a Simplified/Traditional switch at the top of the workspace. Thanks for the OpenCC link. Please let me know if anything's off.

the_gastropod 3mo ago

+1 this request! I'd been dreaming about trying to make something almost exactly like this app, but have absolutely no clue how to even begin going about it. You've nailed it! I've been manually cropping out audio clips from Audacity, and grabbing the relevant translations from my textbook PDF's to make Anki cards that look 3.5% as nice as yours do. Really nice work on this!

alder 3mo ago
Simplified/Traditional support is now deployed. Really glad you like it, thanks!