Re: [orca-list] Chinfusor, a universal solution for read

[Mallard <mallard kimabe eu>]

Hello Rastislav,


It's as if you'd rad my mind...


Thanks ever so much for this project!


I'm extremely interested, and I'll definitely have a look at it.


Thanks for your effort.


Ciao, Stay safe wherever you are.

Ollie




On 22/07/2020 19:02, Rastislav Kiss via orca-list wrote:
> Hi folks,
> so, finally, I have managed to pull of a rather unusual thing for me. I
> have actually finished a project! :)
> If reading texts written in multiple alphabets is a problem you're
> dealing with, read below, I'm pasting here the first section from
> Chinfusor's documentation.
>
> When one wants to learn a new language, or simply use a language other
> than his native, the very basic ability required in order to do so is
> to be able to read text written in the particular language. And while
> this is quite easy for latin-based languages, which can be read simply
> as they are, the situation gets much more complicated, when trying to
> read texts written in other alphabets.
>
> Languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese or Russian are widely used
> in the world. Taking in the fact, that population of China at time of
> writing this text makes about 1.43 billion, approximately every fifth
> human in the world speaks Chinese.\
> And yet, when running into chinese characters, espeak, the default
> speech synthesizer for many Linux distributions says just "chinese
> character, chinese character, chinese character, ...".\
> Russian's cyrillic or Japanese Kana don't produce much more informative
> results. That is a problem, especially if you want to read text in
> these languages, either because you want to learn or simply use them.
>
> Thus, Chinfusor is here to help you.
>
> If you're interested, read more at:
> https://rastisoftslabs.com/2020/07/22/chinfusor-a-universal-solution-for-reading-texts-in-foreign-alphabets-on-linux/
>
> Best regards
>
> Rastislav
>
>
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