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Re: Chinese Text Project

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If you have parallel translations of text, I wrote Pingtype to show the word-by-word literal translation and pinyin. https://pingtype.github.io For example, a random Bible verse every time you refresh. Or see the YouTube link from the heading row. https://pingtype.github.io/verse.html I'd like to include CText's data, but there's a strict warning against scraping their site.

this is very cool, thanks for making this!

Thank you for the encouragement!

I'm now working on more data sources for it. On my laptop I've collected 32,000 Christian song lyrics that I can sing in church. Running a search feature without PHP is a little complicated though.

My next project will be to write a chatbot using example dialogues. I need to provide data in CSV format, with one line for each question/answer. I think textbooks and cartoon subtitles have some dialogues, but if you have other ideas of data sources, please let me know.

Re: Chinese Text Project

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post #17

Does anyone have ideas on how these features can be made to work on mobile? For example, at http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=1102 you can hover over the words to see meanings, or click on them to see in the dictionary. What is the analogue on phones, for “hover” versus “click”? What does the ctext project think about phones? (For context, I'm hoping to do something similar for Sanskrit someday…)

on my note phone I hover the s-pen above the text.
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