Kanji draw vs Seamless
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Kanji draw
A simple application that lets you draw Japanese characters (kanji) using the touch screen. It is intended for Japanese language learners who might need to enter characters in order to look them up in a dictionary or enter them on a website. It identifies the character you have drawn using a special form of handwriting recognition. You can select the correct character from a list. After entering one or more characters, you can copy them into the clipboard as text for use in a dictionary. Note that this will NOT work - at all - if you don't know basically how to draw kanji. If you just draw something any old way that looks like it, it certainly won't be recognised. You have to draw characters basically the official way. This is a fork of the Kanji draw application from https://github.com/quen/kanjirecog/ which is no longer maintained and was removed from F-Droid. Two of the included icons were taken from the Android SDK and are licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The kanji stroke data is based on the KanjiVG data set from http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/ and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Seamless
Offline speech to text tranlator based on Seamless M4T As a standalone app Seamless can translate between English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, and Russian. Upon launching Seamless for the first time, the app will download the necessary model from Hugging Face. Please note that this is the only instance where internet permission is required. Once the model is downloaded, speech to text translation works entirely offline, ensuring your privacy and convenience. To get the most out of Seamless, follow these simple tips: - Press and hold the microphone button while speaking. - Pause briefly before starting to speak. - Speak clearly, loudly, and at a moderate pace. - Then select the target language
| Feature | Kanji draw | Seamless |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | MIT |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityTranslator | ProductivityTranslator |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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