How To Add Chinese Input Method In Windows 10

Cantonese on Windows

How to write, type, listen, and dictate Cantonese on Windows Computers.

This guide is written for Windows 10. Nonetheless, well-nigh steps will likewise probably work for Windows 7.

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Write

To input Cantonese Chinese past Handwriting:

1. Open up Settings > Fourth dimension & Language > Linguistic communication
2. Click Add together a preffered linguistic communication
3. Select Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR).

4. Right-Click the Taskbar, and brand sure that "Show touch keyboard button" is ticked.

5. Tap on the 'Impact Keyboard' button to open it. Change the language to Chinese (lesser-right), and change the fashion to Handwriting .

At present you can tap on the 'Impact Keyboard' push button at someday, and start handwriting chinese characters.

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Type

The 2 nigh popular programs for typing Cantonese in Windows x are RIME and CPIME. Both are free and have support for older versions of Windows.

RIME Weasel (中州韻 小狼毫) A third-political party IME. It'south open up source and usually more than reliable than other IMEs. The User Interface is in Chinese only.	CPIME (Cantonese Phonetic IME) A more official Windows IME. Even so, information technology can sometimes fail to install for some versions of Windows.
RIME Supports: Jyutping Romanization. Multiple input methods tin be enabled.	CPIME Supports: Jyutping, Yale, Sidney Lau, & EduHK Romanizations. Only 1 input method (Jyutping, Yale, etc.) can be enabled at a fourth dimension.

How to utilize RIME to blazon Cantonese in Windows 10:

Do you already have RIME installed?

No, I don't have RIME installed all the same. I want to install RIME bundled with Cantonese.

To blazon Cantonese on Windows:

1. Run windows-sfx-2021.01.19-installer.exe. (The latest windows-sfx exe from Rime-Cantonese.)

2. The installation volition take a few minutes. When it's done,
   Restart your computer.
3. In Taskbar > Linguistic communication Picker, select RIME.
   (Ignore RIME's linguistic communication clarification in this menu. Information technology has no touch on what language RIME really uses.)

4. Right-Click on RIME and select 「輸入法設定 (Southward)」 (Input method setting (Southward)).

5. Uncheck all options besides 「粵語拼音」 (Cantonese Pinyin, i.e. Jyutping).
   (Alternatively, you tin accept multiple RIME input modes, switching betwixt them using [ Ctrl + ` ].)

6. Click 【中】 to apply the linguistic communication changes. Click 【中】 again to confirm RIME's appearance. RIME (小狼毫) volition then update itself (⧗ 維護中) with your new settings.

Now, you tin select RIME anytime from your Linguistic communication Picker, and type Cantonese.

Assist, I already have an one-time installation of RIME and I want to add together Cantonese to it:

To add Cantonese input to an old installation of RIME:

1. Right-Click on RIME and select 「輸入法設定 (S)」 (Input method setting (S)).
2. Select 獲取更多輸入方案… (Become more input options…). This will open up the Rime Package Installer console.
3. In the Rime Bundle Installer: Type cantonese and hit Enter.
4. Back in RIME's Input Settings, tick 粵語拼音 (Cantonese Pinyin).

How to use CPIME to type Cantonese in Windows ten:

See instructions on how to install CPIME on Windows 10, by PinyinJoe.

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Mind (TTS)

To get your Windows computer to read out Cantonese Chinese text (Text to Speech):

1. Go to Command PANEL > Ease of Admission > Speech communication Recognition > Text to Speech.
2. Fix the Text-to-Speech Voice to [ Microsoft Tracy Desktop - Chinese (Traditional, HongKong SAR) ]
   (If you can't meet the voice, go to: SETTINGS > Time & Language > Language > Add a preferred language > 中文 (香港) (Cantonese) )

3. 
   Choose between two Options for running Cantonese Text-to-Speech:
   

   A.	B.
   A Program that will read out Cantonese Text every time information technology's copied. (To stop it reading out, you take to shut the program.)	A Button in your task bar that will read out Curt selected Cantonese Text when clicked. (Express to curt paraphraphs)

4. 
   
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   Open the program. In the listing of voices, select "Microsoft Tracy Desktop - Chinese (Traditional, HongKong SAR)". (If y'all don't see "Microsoft Tracy", try repeating step 2 and restarting your computer.)

   Right-Click on the program, and select 'Pin to Taskbar'.


6. 
   

   Now, you can Select Cantonese Text and have it be read out loud by Copying it (Control+C, or, Right-Click > Copy). To cease text from being read out every fourth dimension it's copied, you lot can close the program or reduce its volume. (If the program is reading out text, only you lot can't find it, it might be in the "System Tray". The System Tray is on the Lesser-Right of the screen.)

   Now, yous can Select short Cantonese text and have it read out in by clicking on the plan in the Taskbar. Note: This programme is in beta, and is currently limited to short parapgraphs. It can not read unabridged news articles nevertheless.

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Dictate

Cantonese dictation (oral communication recognition) is currently not implemented properly in Windows. We recommend using third-party applications for Cantonese dictation on Windows.

To dictate Cantonese in a Word Processor (Google Docs):

1. Open up a Google Doc.
2. Click Tools > Voice Typing > 中文 (香港).

Note: Microsoft 365 Dictation (including Microsoft Word), practise not currently have support for Cantonese Dictation.

To dictate Cantonese on Websites (via a Freemimum Chrome Extension):

• The Voice in Voice Typing Chrome Browser extension can be used for gratis on sure websites. Even so, dictation on some major websites costs $half-dozen/month.
  See a listing of the sites they support.

Note: Even though Windows gives the impression that it supports Cantonese Speech recognition when the official Windows Cantonese linguistic communication pack is downloaded, this is not actually true. Cantonese Speech Recognition tin can Non be enabled in Modern Windows Text Dictation, nor Traditional Windows Speech Recognition. This is likely due to a issues on Microsoft's end.

If yous'd similar to encounter Microsoft support Cantonese Dictation – please let Microsoft know.

• You tin do this past opening the Feedback Hub app. And then yous can write your own feedback, or copy the following:
  "Please fix Cantonese Speech-to-Text on Windows. Dictation is included in the official Windows Language Pack (中文(香港)), but is not activated."

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Cortana

Microsoft'due south Cortana does not currently support Cantonese.

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Footnotes

Note: The information here is based on Windows x (version 1909).
Page terminal updated Mar 2021.

Source: https://www.cantonese.tools/windows.html

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