What are the strong points of KEY compared to other Chinese software?
These are some of them: • Fast text entry using standard Pinyin and Zhuyin Fuhao orthography • Full support of the traditional and simplified character modes • Automatic creation of Pinyin with tone marks for any Hanzi text • Reads any text aloud in standard Mandarin, with a natural human voice • Automated authoring of lessons from web text, with incremental vocabulary lists • Creation of vocabulary statistics for any lesson text • Character set of 25,000 Hanzi (both traditional and simplified) • Largest and most up-to-date C/E and E/C dictionary with 260,000-plus entries • Ongoing dictionary updates by the KEY lexicographers (free download) • 15 different ClearType/TrueType Chinese/Japanese/Korean font styles • Teacher annotations to any text item, viewable through the tooltip • Number/measure-word combinations with English translation (tooltip) • Tone changes (sandhi) reflected in Pinyin, as a Pinyin display option • Timed reading: automated running of texts as multimedia lessons • A
