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If anyone is looking for a similar tool that works with any Chinese content you like, and is performant even for long texts, you might be interested in my Chine

by imron 12y ago

If anyone is looking for a similar tool that works with any Chinese content you like, and is performant even for long texts, you might be interested in my Chinese Text Analyser: http://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/ http://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/ It also remembers words you know and don't know and can give you an approximation of how well you'll know a given piece of text before you start reading it (once it has a fair idea of your vocabulary). Currently Windows only, but it runs under Wine on Linux and an OSX version will be ready soon.

mojoe 12y ago
This looks like a great tool. I have two questions: 1. Can it translate characters to pinyin? I can speak more Mandarin than I can read, so being able to see phonetics would be really useful to me. 2. Do you know of any online stores that sell DRM-free Mandarin ebooks that could be used with your tool?
- imron 12y ago
  1) No, and partly on purpose. It's impossible to get 100% accuracy with automatic character->pinyin converters, and is very easy to get incorrect values even for common words and I believe this is a danger for new learners and so for the moment have not implemented this. At some point I hope to start creating curated content with the tool and that will be able to provide the full, correct pinyin. In the meantime, it does have the ability to show pinyin definitions for individual words (rather than bulk conversion), and it can export tab-separated lists of all unknown/looked up words, including with pinyin, definition, sentences containing the word (with or without cloze deletion) and more, which can then be imported in a flashcard program such as Pleco or Anki. 2) I'm not sure off the top of my head of any Mandarin ebook stores, but this thread on Chinese-Forums has a few suggestions (some of which may now be out of date so check towards the end for more recent sources): http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-source-for-chinese-ebooks/ http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-so...
  - mojoe 12y ago
    Cool, thanks for creating this tool!
simplify 12y ago
Let me know when you release the OSX version, I'm very interested in purchasing.
- imron 12y ago
  Will do!

by imron 12y ago

mojoe 12y ago

This looks like a great tool. I have two questions: 1. Can it translate characters to pinyin? I can speak more Mandarin than I can read, so being able to see phonetics would be really useful to me. 2. Do you know of any online stores that sell DRM-free Mandarin ebooks that could be used with your tool?

imron 12y ago
1) No, and partly on purpose. It's impossible to get 100% accuracy with automatic character->pinyin converters, and is very easy to get incorrect values even for common words and I believe this is a danger for new learners and so for the moment have not implemented this. At some point I hope to start creating curated content with the tool and that will be able to provide the full, correct pinyin. In the meantime, it does have the ability to show pinyin definitions for individual words (rather than bulk conversion), and it can export tab-separated lists of all unknown/looked up words, including with pinyin, definition, sentences containing the word (with or without cloze deletion) and more, which can then be imported in a flashcard program such as Pleco or Anki. 2) I'm not sure off the top of my head of any Mandarin ebook stores, but this thread on Chinese-Forums has a few suggestions (some of which may now be out of date so check towards the end for more recent sources): http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-source-for-chinese-ebooks/ http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-so...
- mojoe 12y ago
  Cool, thanks for creating this tool!

simplify 12y ago

Let me know when you release the OSX version, I'm very interested in purchasing.

imron 12y ago
Will do!