Windows 1. 0 Chinese Handwriting, Speech, and Language Packs Pinyin Joe. Other pages Overview  Input methods setup Traditional character Pinyin input. Simplified character input alternative MSZYHandwriting, speech, language packs this pageAdvanced features  Help files in English Missing, broken, and just plain lame Chinese features. The following instructions assume you have already set up at least one Chinese language and keyboard, as described on the input methods setup page. As of Windows 1. 0, you do not need to download display languages language packs unless you want to change the Windows Start menu and other system feaures into another language. In Windows 8 and earlier versions, Chinese handwriting was bundled with the language pack downloads, even though language packs have actually never been required to make Chinese handwriting work or Chinese typing or reading for that matter. If you begin at the Language menu and select Language preferences as shown here, you will be able to download these items separately. You can also get to the same place via the Start menu click Settings then in the Settings panel click Time Language, and in that panel go to Regional settings. If you are using the classic desktop language bar, I suggest that in this situation you use the Start menu Settings path described in the previous paragraph. Heres one reason why In the Taiwan and Macau region settings, the old style desktop control panel will not offer you the handwriting or speech downloads, because as of the Windows 1. The SoundEffect Bleep trope as used in popular culture. Normally used when a character is going to say something rude in a programme where the FCC or other. English Talk Now Free Download there. Programs AZ. Find program websites, online videos and more for your favorite PBS shows. 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In the Time Language settings panel, under Region language, select the Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese language area to reveal the three buttons you see here, then select Options Youll find three download buttons available at the top of the next panel, under Language options. Again, in the global Windows release, display language packs are available only in the Hong Kong, PRC, and Singapore regions, but if you chose Taiwan or Macau during language setup youll only see the download buttons for handwriting and speech. Lets look at these one at a time Handwriting Speech Jump to this Language packs Jump to this Handwriting Both Simplified and Traditional handwriting are available in the new Touch Keyboard handwriting mode. Download PowerTalk. PowerTalk requires that you have PowerPoint 2000 or later and the Microsoft Speech API SAPI 5. Windows XP. This is explained below. Most of the information below focuses on that feature. But first, I should also mention that the original Windows Chinese handwriting feature is still available in the IME Pad for Traditional Chinese The Traditional Chinese IME Pad is covered in detail on the advanced features page. On this page well continue discussing the new handwriting features in Windows 1. The Simplified Chinese IME Pad never supported handwriting, only radical and punctuation lookup, but anyway that IME Pad is missing from Windows 1. I track items like that in my FAQ article titled Missing, Broken, and Just Plain Lame Chinese Features in Windows 1. Now lets return to discussing the Touch Keyboard. After handwriting is downloaded and installed per the instructions at the top of this page, youll find options where the Download buttons had been in your Traditional Chinese language options, youll find Recognize rarely used Chinese, Kanji, or Hanja characters when converting handwriting to typed text, and in your Simplified Chinese language options, youll find an optional automatic SimplifiedTraditional or TraditionalSimplified converter. The Traditional Chinese rare character option disappeared from my system after the July 2. Anniversary Update. Perhaps now its the default It should be limiting the number of characters was a goal for older systems with memory and speed limitations most of us no longer have to worry about. The Simplified Chinese options also include recognize italic handwriting option. Italic That may or may not be intended for Chinese, unless it somehow also helps with cursivegrass characters. There is separate setting for personalization that may be more useful see To train handwriting recognition below. To start using the handwriting feature, youll need to find the touch keyboard. It lives in a little button on the taskbar until you need it If you do not see that button in your taskbar right click on the taskbar or on a touch screen, long press and release, in the menu that pops up,select Show touch keyboard button. After you click or touch that button on taskbar, the touch keyboard will appear. To switch to handwriting mode, first click the selector button at the lower right of the keyboard, and then select the handwriting icon from the four icons that appear above This is the touch keyboard in handwriting mode at full screen width,and this is the same touch keyboard after I clicked the control circled in red to minimize the size. When in this mode, the touch keyboard can also be dragged anywhere on the screen. On my basic Chinese input setup pages youll find more about customizing the Touch Keyboard for handwriting and phonetic input. To train handwriting recognition to better recognize your own style, go to the classic Language control panel. From where we are in the above screen shots, go back one page to Settings and then click the bottom link that says Additional date, time, regional settings. Or, you can enter Language in taskbar search and select the control panel offered at the top of those search results. On the classic Language control panel, proceed to the options for a Chinese region. On in the Language options panel, click on Personalize handwriting recognition. Handwriting Personalize. It will then walk you through the entry and sampling of some characters to help it learn your handwriting personality. On my basic Chinese input setup pages youll find more about customizing the Touch Keyboard for handwriting and phonetic input. OK Thats all Ive got on the handwriting feature. I dont use it much, and from the examples above you can probably tell why. Theres a reason they call me Pinyin Joe. But feel free to send questions, comments, or suggestions anytime. Speech. After you start downloading the speech features, youll notice there are two kinds speech recognition, and text to speech. The options for this are in the Speech section of Time Language settings. At the top, youll find the language menu, and an option to recognize non native accents. Given the wide range of accents among even native Chinese speakers, I recommend everyone check that box. In my global US English system, Ive been unable to get Traditional Chinese to show up in that menu no matter what else I try. As I dont use this feature, I may not explore further and may not notice if this suddenly begins working after an update. Please let me know if you have a solution. At the bottom of the same settings panel, youll find a button for getting started with speech recognition, and a link to more settings in the classic control panel. I have not done any of this.