Pinyinify is a tool that helps you to take Chinese text and separate it into individual words and add pinyin pronunciation guides above the characters.
You can click on a word to look it up in the dictionary and see the English definition. Once you know a word you can mark it as known, and the pinyin will not be displayed in the future. This will help your Chinese reading ability to progress.
The converted text can then be formatted and saved as a document that can be reloaded at a later date.
v1.9.1
- Ability to save and reload the converted document
- Ability to delete documents that have been previously saved
- Fixed rendering bug to make sure that padding is even at the start of every line
- Improved text selection magnifying glass
- Text annotation capality include red, green, yellow, and pink highlighting
- Text format capability including font size, bold, italic, and underline
Version 1.8 new features
- Increased size of tap area for selection handles to make selection easier
- Selection handles are not cut off when at the edge of the view
- Added magnifier view for selection of results
- Fixed bugs in selection/deselection of results
Version 1.7 new features
- Added "I want to learn button" that allows you to mark a word as one you want to learn but dont fully know yet
- Words that are marked as to be learned have a different color, defined in settings
- Words that are marked as to be learned can be touched to quickly show the pinyin
- Added clear learning words button to settings page
- Added learning words & characters to statistics page
- Fixed a bug in the results page that sometimes cause a white space at top of the page
- Added Known/Unknown menu items to results selection
- Hides keyboard when resturning to source text view
- Fix share to match select all and copy
- Suplemented the dictionary with additional common words that were missing
- Fixed wordbreaker priorities to improve pinyin selection for 给,到
- Change to segmentation rules that will backtrack if it thinks the wrong long word was previously chosen
- Added new known character button to dictionary page to make feature more visible
- Fixed bug with dictionary result view that cause pinyin word to jump about
Version 1.6 new features
- Increased speed of dictionary search
- Add "not found" message when a word is not found in the dictionary
- Removed spacing between known chinese words to improve the flow of the results text
- Fixed text selection bug
- Fixed bug on dictionary detail page which caused it to flash with a gray background when clicked
- Fixed bug that caused settings to crash when clicking on the sample character
Version 1.5 new features
- Added ability to select sections of the pinyinized results
- Added ability to copy selected pinyinized text
- Added ability to select all pinyinized text
- Fixed bug which allowed segmentation of text before dictionaries had been fully loaded
- Fixed bug in numbering of definitions in search results page
Version 1.4 new features
- Ability to mark a word as known so that the pinyin will not be shown in the future, this is to support your learning of Chinese characters
- New dictionary detail page to show all the definitions of a selected character
- In order to better support tablets, settings now allows much larger font sizes
- Source text view now follows the font selection in settings
- Added support for pressing enter in the source text view, allowing carriage returns
Version 1.3 new features
- Added basic dictionary lookup when you click on pinyinized word
- Improved the dictionary used during pinyinization to take account the frequency, this will mean that it will choose the most likely choice when faced with multiple options.
Version 1.2 new features
- Small bug fixes and improvements
- Added apostrophe for ambiguous pinyin expressions