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Yes, I know about romanisation! I wrote Pingtype, and extracted romanisation dictionaries for Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka by parsing Bible data.

https://pingtype.github.io

Tones are difficult, so I encode those as colours. Adding code to espeak-ng sounds very difficult. Most of the songs are in Mandarin though, so I'll try those first.




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