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gato -

I'd encourage everyone who's been using pinyin to try "double pinyin." It will give you a bigger
speed-up than any new IME can offer.

I use Pinyin Jia Jia because it remembers the new vocabs that you type, and it works well using
the double pinyin entry mode.

It's called double pinyin because every character can be input with just two letters. It achieves
this by mapping final sounds, the 韵母 (in's, ing', an's, ang's, etc.), onto single keys.

For example, 's' is used for "ong", and 从 (cong) would be typed with 'c' + 's'.

It sounds a little complicated, but I think most people would get a hang of it with about an hour
of practice.

You can use "double pinyin" within your existing Microsoft IME by selecting it in the options menu.

There are several different key layouts for ShuangPin, but it's probably best to learn Microsoft's
because it's likely to be most widely available. See the image attached below for the Microsoft
Shuangpin layout. The smaller letters show the "final sounds" mapped to each key.

To practice shuangpin, try this program.
http://polycrit.com/typing_test.exe
After decompressing, run 金码练习.exe. It gives a chance to practice until it become automatic
and keeps track of your typing speed.

You can find out more about double pinyin here on this Chinese wiki page:
http://www.allwiki.com/wiki/%E8%87%A...96%B9%E6%A1%88



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zhwj -

Looks like Google copied more than the look from Sogou:
http://www.mindmeters.com/showlog.asp?log_id=5031 - strange variants are in their word list, too.










adrianlondon -

Seems like it's become common knowledge.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/...torival_1.html










Xiao Kui -

i downloaded and installed the IME but I don't know where it went. Is it stand alone or only works
with Internet explorer? I'm not using my windows IME rt now. Do I have to have that on to use the
google IME? Thanks!










Hero Doug -

You'll find it in the Windows toolbar along with the native IME.










adrianlondon -

In the "regional and language" options (control panel) you need to install the "Chinese PRC"
language and then pick the google IME as the keyboard you want to use.










<<恒心>> -

Now Google has confessed and apologized...what a funny business model they have.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...e/article.html

Market share, anyone??










ABCinChina -

Wow, I think this is way better than MSPY 2007! Like everyone has said, you can type out a whole
sentence. It's just that the menu is in Chinese. Can this be changed?










madizi -



Quote:

Well, google already handles the adverts I publish, the adverts I place, some of my mail, my
website statistics, my desktop search, my Internet searching (almost forgot that one) and who
knows what else, I guess it might as well help me type Chinese

[Just a thought, although it is out of topic]

Yes, Google is too much present in our life, like Big Brother (I assume that everybody knows that
I don't have TV show in mind). But it's our fault. We could use other services.










smalltownfart -

Could Google have simply licensed this on-the-quiet from sogou?

The2 IMES are way, way, way too much alike.












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