Kata ·NHK news reader and more

Dacer

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About this app

Kata turns your phone into a tool for building Japanese language literacy by helping you to decipher texts which would be otherwise too difficult tackle.

All you need to do is just copy any Japanese on your phone and Kata will automatically analyze its sentence structure for you and then display its pronunciation, meaning.

Kata is similar to Rikaikun / Rikaichan / Rikaisama / Yomichan and trying to let you get the closest experience to them.

- Android 10 supported (https://blog.dacer.im/Kata/adb)
- Support custom dictionary
- Read NHK news in app
- Flashcards (can export to AnkiDroid)

** Segmentation are run on your device, none of your text data will be uploaded

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Listen to clipboard feature:

We use the AccessibilityService API to listen to the clipboard on Android 10 and above.
When you enable this feature, all information obtained through the AccessibilityService API is processed locally only, and no information is uploaded to the server or elsewhere over the network.

Ratings and reviews

Great app for reading japanese texts. Just copy a text and you can see furigana and the vocabulary definition of any kanji/word. I also love the ankiDroid integration, which makes it really easy to build a vocabulary learning deck with words from the texts I read. Sadly the app can't handle emojis in texts. If the text contains any emoji i recieve an error "Illegal Argument: Failure when converting to UTF-8: Incomplete..." It would be great if you could fix this.

Not a good sign when the app parses the 間 from の間で as ま instead of 間. It's like, right in the example text for the tutorial. Nobody reads it にっぽん either unless they're ancient. Definitely needs a dictionary update, I imagine it uses a really old version of a shareware version which is understandable but that being the case this needs some bolts tightened before I recommend it. Maybe add a function for users to submit tickets for wrong readings? Hinders more than it helps.

One of the best apps for studying Japanese, and is great for reading. I use the clipboard listener function extensively for reading websites, articles, LINE messages, emails, and Twitter posts. Each new update brings added functionality which only adds to the app.

What’s new

Minor fixes