Since macOS Mojave, macOS has had deep support for natural languages beyond English. Although Nalaprop demonstrates some of its features, it could do much more now. Should it?
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Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS.
Nearly 20 years old now, the Dictionary app seems to be slowly slipping into oblivion. It still provides access to reputable sources and Wikipedia.
If macOS doesn’t include your preferred keyboard layout, here’s how to create your own, and put it to work.
Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?
Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).
A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
How you can use both online and offline translation in Monterey, including a demonstrating translating Arabic into English.
Identifies, parses and analyses text in any of 8 languages supported by Mojave and later. Ideal for learners, word frequency analysis, and much more.
Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.
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