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Nearly 2 years have passed since I wrote my previous blog post on Inputing Chinese and in a computing world, there should be much more improvements. I’m going to introduce what I consider the fastest input method for Chinese characters available now (Jan 2017)- by voice dictation…
Apr 13, 2015 To type Chinese, simply select 'Chinese' language and then type pinyin using your keyboard. You'll be presented with a number of different characters. Select the number of the character/s you want.
- When typing words with two or more characters, you can just type the first letter of each syllable. For example, ggqc for 公共汽车, daxs for 大学生 and gxing for 高兴 New. Press the corresponding number key, or tap the Chinese character or word, to select the character or word from the candidate box.
- Inserting Chinese Characters with Trackpad Handwriting. For Simplified or Traditional Chinese characters, another input method is available: trackpad handwriting. Trackpad Handwriting allows you to draw out a Chinese character using the multi-touch trackpad on your MacBook or a Magic Trackpad.
- Type Pinyin with numbers representing the tones, as in 'Han4yu3 Pin1yin1'. Select the text or document you want to convert.
Voice typing or Dictation input (NOT voice recording) is not new, there have been heaps of previous speech recognition software, some nearly 10 years ago, and including the more famous ones like Dragon Dictate, etc which dated back around 2011. Earlier iterations of these mainly were on English input and in fact, Apple Dictate for English input has been in place since mid 2012 under Mountain Lion (and later for Chinese including Cantonese, e.g. under iOS8) and has been perfecting resulting in rather good accuracy. Google on the other hand has spent excellent efforts as the pioneer in exploring to support other languages including the popular Chinese input, and has made continuous improvements, they are the first to provide such in Windows and Andorid (phones) environment with practical accuracy. Recently, in around 2016, Apple has also come up with Apple Dictation for Cantonese Chinese characters input with encouraging improvements (from my experience) such that I can recommend it now- I mean I found it to be the fastest way for input and now at a stage with considerable accuracy (around average 85 to 95% for Chinese, English better) to be practical (using some personal tips below, and will improve as you use it more). If after you voice-type, there are some wrong characters (typically those words with the same pronunciation), you can correct it using hand-writing method, overall, a much much faster input method (especially for longer messages) than any other method I know of.
Soda player. soda player 1.3.9 free for mac. How to voice-type Chinese with better accuracy? Below are some personal experience (based on speaking Cantonese and English) to share:-
- speak clearly to the mic in a normal speed, don’t be too fast and no need to be very slow too;
- the longer your phrase, the better the accuracy and chance of getting it right as the computer can intelligently decipher the meaning and find the best/most logical/meaningful phrase for you.
- for easily confused (e.g. many versions with the same pronunciation) words or short abbreviated phrases, speak a short phrase (typically 2 characters) instead of the 1 character shorter form, this would help the computer to choose the right word, e.g. speak 確切承認 for確認, 充值 (instead of just say充), say ‘現金時間’ when I couldn’t get “現時” . You can then delete the superfluous characters if you want.
- Cantonese slangs are OK, e.g. 你係唔係講笑, 都係嗰句, 有冇搞錯, 冇事啦, 大家咁話, 有無咁着數, 你係咪傻咗啊, 咪搞我, 你先啦, 係咪真架, 快啲啦, 好話唔好聽, 成日都係咁樣, 好好嘢, 頂呱呱…. – all are recognised right-away!
- you can have some simple English (e.g. “OK”, English names, etc) words amongst Chinese sentences too. E.g. “12點半響銅鑼灣等,OK?”; “Mary,究竟你幾點鐘到?”
- punctuation marks can also be used, like say ‘逗號’ for “,”; say ‘句號’ for “。”; ‘問號’ for “?”, say ‘感嘆’ for “!”
Now if you’re convinced that this will work for you, and remember, the more you use it, the better it becomes. Once it learn your ‘new’ (new for the device) word, it remembers it for the next time. Below are installation methods:-
For iPhones – you have to set Cantonese (Chinese – HK) as the default language for Siri. Go > Settings > Siri > Language (choose Chinese (Cantonese – Hong Kong). That’s it. then when you want to voice type in Cantonese, just go to the Chinese keyboard (where you normally hand-write), click the ‘mic’ icon at the left bottom (left of the space bar), and speak your Cantonese sentences! Inter-mixing short English phrases in Cantonese sentences are OK too.
For Android phones –
- install Google input (Cantonese, or pinyin if you use Putonghua), and
- Active the Google voice typing under Settings > Language & Input, see here for details.
- Under Settings/Keyboard, Add google Voice typing- In Google Voice typing, include English and Cantonese (HK Chinese).
- To simplify interface, in Keyboard, just choose the 2 – Google ‘Cantonese’ input and Google Voice Input, then you only need to switch between English, Chinese (including hand-writing) and Voice input (by clicking the mic on right).
- To voice type, just Select the Language from the keyboard top, then click the “mic” (see photo at top)
- If and when voice detection detect a different language from what you want (sometimes this happen), just click the ‘globe’ for language selection in the keyboard and stress/click the language you want again before going back to voice type.
For Mac computers, see this for details, >Apple > Settings and Preferences > Keyboard OR Dictation > and use ‘Chinese HIK SAR’ (for Cantonese) – see photo above. Invent a short-cut for yourself to activate this ‘Dictation input” (I use double ‘command’ key, punching it twice). Note that once this is on, the other sound output would be disabled, i.e. the song you’re playing would be paused, so make sure you click “Done” in the icon to disable it in order to get back the sound when you play music or your Youtube.
Notes: I’m using a ‘generic’ Android phone (OnePlus 3T) and Android 7.0 Nougat, some other versions may be slightly different. The above were also tested OK for my iMac (with OSX version 10.11.6), and an iphone 6 (iOS version 10.2)
Sources references : Apple Support Site, Dummies.com (http://www.dummies.com/consumer-electronics/smartphones/droid/google-voice-typing-on-your-android-phone/)
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Chinese and Cantonese Input Method User Guide
After you set up the Pinyin - Simplified input source, you can enter Simplified Chinese characters using Pinyin phonetic input codes.
Enter Chinese characters using Pinyin - Simplified
- On your Mac, switch to the Pinyin - Simplified input source.
- In an app, do any of the following:
- Enter Pinyin: Type the input codes for the characters you want to use, then select the characters in the Candidate window. For example, to enter 苹, type “ping”, then select 苹 in the window.
- Enter Full Pinyin (Quanpin): Type the input codes for the characters you want to use, then select the characters in the Candidate window. For example, to enter 西安, type “xi’an”, then select 西安 in the window.Use an apostrophe to separate syllables that have ambiguous parsings. Full Pinyin has modifications that make typing more convenient; for example, “v” is used to replace “ü” (so to enter 绿, you would type “lv”).
- Enter Abbreviated Pinyin (Jianpin): Type the consonant of each syllable in an input code, then select characters in the Candidate window. For example, to enter 计算机, type “jsj” (the input code is “jisuanji”).You can use both full and abbreviated Pinyin in the same conversion. For example, if you type “pingguogs” with “gongsi” abbreviated to “gs”, the result is still “苹果公司”.
- Enter Structural Pinyin (Chaizi): Type a Chaizi input code with two or more syllables, then press Shift-Space bar. For example, type “jiji”, then press Shift-Space bar. The Candidate window opens, and the first candidates shown in the Composition pane are 喆, 兓, and 旣.With structural Pinyin, each syllable of the input sequence is treated as the Pinyin for one of the components in the character (in order from left to right and top to bottom).
- Show the keyboard layout: Click the Input menu in the menu bar, then choose Show Keyboard Viewer.
Enter Chinese characters using Stroke with Pinyin - Simplified
- On your Mac, switch to the Pinyin - Simplified input source.
- In an app, use a prefix key (u), followed (without a space) by the stroke input code for a character. For example, you can type the following:Stroke within PinyinKeyboard key一H丨S丿P丶(乀)N乛(乙)Z*wildcardXIf you type “unnzzsh”, you get 字 as the first candidate.
You can also add words to your user dictionary to save time when you need to type the same word again.
You may need to change preferences, for example, to show predictive completions or to change the orientation of the Candidate window.
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