{"id":8315,"date":"2018-09-19T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2018-09-19T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T00:26:49","slug":"using-phone-app-to-learn-chinese-and-other-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8315","title":{"rendered":"Using Phone App to Learn Chinese and other Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An idea from Nadia: Take a photo with a phone, make an app to recognize text (Chinese) in the photo and to read it out loud as a way to learn Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>General outline: Pipe camera image to OCR then to a Text-to-Speech engine.<\/p>\n<p>Available resources, best I found thus far:<br \/>\n- Google Cloud Vision (OCR) API\u00a0https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/vision\/<br \/>\n- Google Cloud Text to Speech\u00a0https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/text-to-speech\/<\/p>\n<p>Though they have pricing plans, they seem to offer free plan with limitation (number of scans) that's of no serious consequences for basic usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An idea from Nadia: Take a photo with a phone, make an app to recognize text (Chinese) in the photo and to read it out loud as a way to learn Chinese. General outline: Pipe camera image to OCR then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8315\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}