Pinyin Annotator is a browser extension that overlays Hanyu Pinyin annotations over Chinese characters in web pages and video closed captions, enhancing your Chinese language learning journey.
- Navigate to your browser's extension store.
- Click
Add to Chrome,Add to Firefox, or the equivalent for your browser.
- 🎦 Enhanced Video Streaming: Integrate pinyin into Chinese subtitles (closed captions) on platforms like Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, Bilibili, and more for an enriched viewing experience.
- 🌐 Cross-Browser: Works on Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave). Safari support coming soon.
- 🀄 Simplified and Traditional Chinese: Support both Simplified (简体) and Traditional (繁體) Chinese.
- ✌️ Easy Accessibility: Highlight text and click the extension icon to view the pinyin of the selected text without disrupting the entire page. Click to look up the word in a dictionary.
- 📃 Open-Source: You can review and contribute to the code on GitHub.
- ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut: Use
Alt(Optionon macOS) +Shift+Pto toggle annotation (customizable).
- Safari Support
- Bopomofo (注音) / Jyutping (粵拼)
- Right click to toggle annotation
- Automatic annotation
- Incorrect video titles when transitioning between pages on YouTube.
Apart from obtaining the extension from your browser's dedicated extension store, you can clone this repository and build it yourself.
pnpm install
pnpm build
# or
npm install
npm run buildThis should create a production bundle for your extension, and ready to be loaded into your browser. For further reference, you may consult the Plasmo documentation.
This is a totally free and ad-free browser extension. But if you are feeling generous, you could always buy me a tea. This would help offset the 99 bucks Apple developer fee I have to pay each year to keep the Safari extension going.