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24 alternatives to Pinyin Annotator
Display Pinyin in web pages and video closed captions
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pinyin Annotator launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2019 · mandarintonetrainer.com · its alternatives →
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yuyin.io▲136Master Chinese pronunciation with AI-powered feedback
2025 · yuyin.io · its alternatives →
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Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →
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Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Japanese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with kanji lookup, example sentences, flashcards, OCR photo lookup, and a Safari extension for reading Japanese.
2015 · nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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I've built mandoBot, a web app that segments and translates Mandarin Chinese text. This is a Django API (using Django-Ninja and PostgreSQL) and a NextJS front-end (with Typescript and Chakra). For a sample of what this app does, head to https://mandobot.netlify.app/?share_id=e8PZ8KFE5Y. This is my presentation of the first chapter of a classic story from the Republican era of Chinese fiction, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun. Other chapters are located in the "Reading Room" section of the app. This app exists because reading Mandarin is very hard for learners (like me), since…
2025 · mandobot.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons! Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to…
2022 · lessons.nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! In trying to improve my Chinese skills, I built this tool that lets me write a mix of Chinese and English, then recommends a proper Chinese expression. This is super helpful when I want to write something in Chinese but I don't know all the vocab/grammar - I can enter my best effort and use English for the parts I don't know. Really, the fundamental benefit of the tool is that it encourages me to exercise the writing muscle, rather than defaulting to translating from English. My goal was to build something that is fast, relatively inexpensive, and not prone to misleading people.…
2024 · unscrambler.dpw.me · its alternatives →
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2022 · anno.so · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…
Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →
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Ziyo▲112A powerful Japanese Kanji dictionary & search engine
2025 · ziyo.nourman.com · its alternatives →
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Chinese characters into pinyin based on thesaurus
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Master Chinese reading through AIpowered interactive drawing
Dec 2025 · sketchhanyu.aigility.digital · its alternatives →
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Zen-like blogging interface for Jekyll (login: admin/admin) - alagu/pagoda
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HanClip▲4Learn Chinese one sentence at a time, right-click to analyze
Jun 2026 · hanclip.com · its alternatives →
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Plopdown Video, A web extension to annotate web video.
2020 · plopdown.video · its alternatives →
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A label tool aim to reduce semantic segmentation label time, rectangle and polygon annotation is supported - andywang0607/AutoAnnotationTool
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hanzipopup Popup Dictionary for Chinese Language Port of zhongwen (https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen) browser extension as UserScript for Android and iOS. A UserScript for browsers to show meaning in popup for selected Chinese characters. The UserScript uses zhongwen browser extension codes. Source https://github.com/krmanik/hanzipopup
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dictionariez▲58Facilitate your language learning with tons of dictionaries
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hylinker▲58Annotate with bidirectional links, take notes like Twitter
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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