CHIN 410/510 Chinese Information Processing – Using Computers to Teach and Learn Chinese

September 21: What will we do in class?

1. Students presentations showing the best input method you like (how it works and why you like it) and Project 2 “using eStroke to make animated characters and practice sheets”

2. Pinyin input issues

a. Input Pinyin with tones

b. Convert Pinyin (from characters to Pinyin, from numbers to tones)

3. Install and test Inyinput and Pinyin Builder on your own notebook

4. Text-to-Speech software demo

Pinyin with tones

Online input

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/Itool/type_pinyin_with_tones.htm

http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/pinyin_conversion.htm

Online converting

http://pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html

http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/converter-pinyin-unicode.html

Install input bar

http://learningchineseonline.net/Pinyin/install.exe http://learningchineseonline.net/tools/pinyin.zip

Speech Plus

http://www.biderworld.com/speechplus.asp