KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
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Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#2It’s too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either proprietary or pirated without attribution
Another resource: https://github.com/CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-Kanji-Recogni... someone made an interesting kanji recognition lib that hasn’t gotten attention
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#3It’s too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either proprietary or pirated without attribution Another resource: https://github.com/CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-Kanji-Recogni... someone made an interesting kanji recognition lib that hasn’t gotten attention
Given a large enough corpus of spoken lines, could you do some ML magic to get the pitch accents (maybe even just FFT and a simple classifier would do)? I'm aware that the "base" pitch accent does change in context so it's not quite trivial, but it seems like you could get pretty close?
Edit: Found https://mizoru.github.io/blog/2021/12/25/Japanese-pitch.html
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#4There's also a stroke order font which is used in the Anki deck I have for learning kanji. The svgs in the post look great, but as far as I can tell there's not an easy way to copy the actual kanji character (you can get it from the actual SVG source however). The font is nice because as far as the clipboard is concerned it's just the character.
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#5There's also a stroke order font which is used in the Anki deck I have for learning kanji. The svgs in the post look great, but as far as I can tell there's not an easy way to copy the actual kanji character (you can get it from the actual SVG source however). The font is nice because as far as the clipboard is concerned it's just the character. https://www.nihilist.org.uk/
It's generated from KanjiVG though: https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#6There's also a stroke order font which is used in the Anki deck I have for learning kanji. The svgs in the post look great, but as far as I can tell there's not an easy way to copy the actual kanji character (you can get it from the actual SVG source however). The font is nice because as far as the clipboard is concerned it's just the character. https://www.nihilist.org.uk/
It's generated from KanjiVG though: https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/projects.html
Oh interesting. I skimmed that page to make sure it wasn't already referenced and ironically didn't recognize that the kanji were the same as the link I posted. More practice needed I guess.
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#7KanjiVG is awesome. I used it for a free kanji app I made for iOS and Android. Figuring out how to write an SVG parser + renderer wasn't as tricky as I thought when I set out to do it. https://www.bjmalicoat.com/projects/kanjibook
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#8It’s too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either proprietary or pirated without attribution Another resource: https://github.com/CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-Kanji-Recogni... someone made an interesting kanji recognition lib that hasn’t gotten attention
Given a large enough corpus of spoken lines, could you do some ML magic to get the pitch accents (maybe even just FFT and a simple classifier would do)? I'm aware that the "base" pitch accent does change in context so it's not quite trivial, but it seems like you could get pretty close? Edit: Found https://mizoru.github.io/blog/2021/12/25/Japanese-pitch.html
The pitch variants are also highly regional but that’s an interesting idea. I wouldn’t want to give it to learners in use cases I can think of, when correct data is available though (just with licensing headaches/costs)
The correct data already exists, so I'm not sure what the point is besides having a less accurate but freer option
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given a large enough corpus of spoken lines, could you do some ML magic to get the pitch accents (maybe even just FFT and a simple classifier would do)? I'm aware that the "base" pitch accent does change in context so it's not quite trivial, but it seems like you could get pretty close? Edit: Found https://mizoru.github.io/blog/2021/12/25/Japanese-pitch.html
The pitch variants are also highly regional but that’s an interesting idea. I wouldn’t want to give it to learners in use cases I can think of, when correct data is available though (just with licensing headaches/costs) The correct data already exists, so I'm not sure what the point is besides having a less accurate but freer option
99% (or more) of the recordings you might find for training would be in the standard accent unless you were specifically digging for regional accents.
Re: KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order, shape and direction
#10KanjiVG is pretty cool. The color coding for radicals and stroke orders is nice. Also, parsing and using the SVGs is fairly straight forward.
Having owned a couple of books that had the stroke orders wrong while I was learning Japanese, I always check for mistakes in the stroke orders of kanji like 右 (right) and 左 (left) to make sure they're correct. KanjiVG gets it right.
On a tangentially related note, I recently purchased an iOS Japanese dictionary app called "Nihongo" (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nihongo-japanese-dictionary/id...) for my daughter because she wanted to study Japanese. I was just expecting a basic course, but it is probably the best vocabulary/kanji studying app I've ever used. It's a little pricey, but well worth it if you're trying to build a strong Japanese vocabulary or learning to read kanji. I have no affiliation with the people who make the app. I'm just an impressed buyer.