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by rahimnathwani 489 days ago
This is cool. If you haven't already, you might like to take a look at Du Chinese and The Chairman's Bao. They might provide ideas or inspiration.

Also the 'clip reader' feature in Pleco is decent.

Also, supporting simplified as well as traditional might increase your potential audience.

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It supports traditional and simplified, as well as pinyin and bopomofo :)

It's already possible to switch instantly between pinyin and bopomofo, and I'm working on letting users switch between simplified/traditional, but this is also a non-trivial problem. For now, the app will follow the user's lead: if you enter traditional text, it will return traditional text, and same goes for simplified.

i've been working on a new script converter (https://github.com/creolio/mandarinTamer) for simplified and traditional (taiwanese) mandarin. almost finished--needs a few tests yet, but should be more accurate than opencc and google translate. would love to chat more about your tool. i'll send you an email.