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Optional Post-Installation Steps

LWT is a all-in-one product, but you can extend its capabilities in various ways. Here are the additional features unavailable by default.

Parse Japanese with MeCab

MeCab is a Japanese parser. Installing it has two main advantages:

  • Much better parsing of Japanese texts than RegExp.
  • Automatic romanization of words.
  • Enables text-to-speech for any character group.

Installation

Standard Installtion

  1. Follow the instructions to download MeCab at https://taku910.github.io/mecab/#install.
  2. Add MeCab to your system PATH.
  3. In LWT, go to "Edit Languages" → "Japanese" and change from the value for "RegExp Word Characters" to mecab.

Using Docker

Original instructions provided here.

  1. Run your LWT container in interactive mode and install MeCab.

    docker exec -it lwt bash
apt-get update && apt-get install -y mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic-utf8

  2. In LWT, go to "Edit Languages" → "Japanese" and change from the value for "RegExp Word Characters" to mecab.

Automatic Translation

LibreTranslate

LibreTranslate is a great open-source tool that allows you to translate text and provides an API. With it you can achieve the following:

  • Translation of sentences without using Google Translate.
  • Automatic translation of words (so you don't need to fill by hand!).

LibreTranslate Demo

To use it, please read the following steps:

  1. Install it on a local or remote server or using Docker.
  2. In LWT, go to "Edit Langagues", either create a new or edit an existing language
  3. In the field "Sentence Translator URI", replace it by the URL of you libre translate instance.
    • Do not forget to add the parameter lwt_translator=libretranslate for the automatic translation!
    • source= should be followed by two letters indicating the language translating from.
    • target= should be followed by two letters indicating the language to translate to.

Enhanced Text-to-Speech

The Text-to-Speech may sound robotic with some languages or operating systems. A workaround is to download a Text-To-Speech (TTS) plugin such as Read Aloud.