Anki-Chinese-Vocabulary-Generator

Enter only simplified characters and create word meaning with Traditional, Pinyin, Meaning, Audio and example sentences offline.

Demo

Features

• Generate word list from imported file
• Traditional, Pinyin, Meaning and Audio generated automatically
• Offline fetch meaning from data folder. (cedict)
• Fetch sentences from data.db offline
• Fetch meaning using Google translate when not found in cedict
• Save audio file in using gTTS or DeepHorizons/tts
• Save list to text file, can be imported to Anki
• Edit / Delete

Quick start (Windows)

1. Install Python
   https://www.python.org
2. Download this repository
   https://github.com/infinyte7/Anki-Chinese-Vocabulary-Generator/archive/master.zip
3. Install git
   https://git-scm.com/
4. Install required library in requirements.txt To install

pip install -r requirements.txt

requirements.txt file contains following

jieba
gTTS
pinyin
pycedict
hanziconv
googletrans
git+https://github.com/DeepHorizons/tts

Install latest version googletrans==4.0.0rc1.

5. Run main.py and start adding words

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Demo

To run on linux

Download this repository and then follow the steps:

1. Install python3
   https://www.python.org
2. Download this repository
   https://github.com/infinyte7/Anki-Chinese-Vocabulary-Generator/archive/master.zip
3. Install pip3

python3-pip

4. Install following dependencies

jieba
gTTS
pinyin
pycedict
hanziconv
googletrans==4.0.0rc1

Command to install

python3 -m pip install -r requirements_linux.txt

5. Run main_for_linux.py

python3 main_for_linux.py

To run on mac

Download this repository and then follow the steps:

1. Install python3
   https://www.python.org

2. Download this repository
   https://github.com/infinyte7/Anki-Chinese-Vocabulary-Generator/archive/master.zip

3. Install following dependencies

jieba
gTTS
pinyin
pycedict
hanziconv
googletrans==4.0.0rc1

Command to install

pip3 install -r requirements_mac.txt

5. Run main_for_mac.py

python3 main_for_mac.py

Demo

To run on Android using Pydroid 3

1. Install Pydroid 3 from play store
2. Download this repository
   https://github.com/infinyte7/Anki-Chinese-Vocabulary-Generator/archive/master.zip
3. Install following using Pip inside Pydroid 3. It requires Pydroid repository plugin also.

jieba
gTTS
pinyin
pycedict
hanziconv
googletrans==4.0.0rc1

4. Download this keyboard 搜狗输入法 sōugǒu shūrù fǎ sogou Input from play store
   Note: Other keyboard will not help in typing chinese characters
5. Open the main_for_android.py inside Pydroid 3
6. Run the script and start adding words

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Demo

Note

Languages & voices for DeepHorizons/tts may be needed to install for windows.

Data

Dictionary

The json_data folder contains dictionary data of CC-CEDICT converted to individual .json file using cedict-json.
CC-CEDICT

Sentences

The data.db contains sentences downloaded from https://tatoeba.org/eng/downloads. For accessing sentences matching the words offline.

Audio

The audio_data folder contains audio taken from https://github.com/hugolpz/audio-cmn.
Those audio taken from http://shtooka.net/download.php

Import in Anki

Use Anki Desktop to import it for Anki-xiehanzi

1. Copy audio from xiehanzi folder to collection.media folder in Anki
2. Create a new deck
3. Import generated xiehanzi.txt file
4. Select Fields separated by: Tabs
5. Map the fields to respective fields
6. Then import

Changelog

Changelog.md

Contribute

Code optimization will be appreciated.

Todo

• Stop freezing when translating the sentences

License

Read License.md

Support this project on Patreon

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