Langpal Desktop

Easily convert & extract Chinese text from websites or embedded subtitled videos to any supported Chinese dialect.
e.g: Mandarin: 你好 = nǐ haǒ | Cantonese: 你好 = nei5 hou2

Transliteration: 

1. Open up the app
2. Go to any website or app with Chinese content
3. Select and copy the content (Command + C)
4. Hold Command + Option then press & release control
5. This will bring the window forward and automatically paste from your clipboard to reveal the romanization
6. Select a dialect from the dropdown to convert it to any other romanisation


Supports:
- Mandarin 普通话 (Pinyin)
- Cantonese 廣東話 (Jyutping)
- Shanghainese 上海话 (Shanghai Pinyin)
- Suzhounese 苏州话 (Suzhou Pinyin)
- Teochew 潮州话 (Peng'im)
- Sichuanese 四川话 (Sichuan Pinyin)
- Hokkien 闽南语 (Min Nan)

Live Video Subtitles:
- Go to a video with embedded/burned in subtitles
- Click the OCR tab (2nd button)
- Select Mandarin or Cantonese
- Click Floating 
- Select where the Chinese text displays 
- Start the live subtitle extraction!
- (Optional Premium: toggle on Translate) 

*Note: Chinese character romanization is an ongoing field of discussion with many potential "correct" & "incorrect" ways to convert these characters.
Many dialects outside of Mandarin & Cantonese have a lot smaller support for romanization but we will try our best to ensure the highest accuracy possible.

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