KanjiTomo streamlines the otherwise awkward process of deciphering the unfamiliar Japanese in your Twitch chat. It eliminates the hassle of having to stop your streaming activities to look up a phrase, reading or kanji.
KanjiTomo connects to your Twitch account and forwards the chat messages straight to Jisho.org, one of the most useful Japanese translation tools available online. The message's particles and endings are stripped using Cabocha, a Japanese N.L.P./Structure Analyzer, to leave only the core phrases and characters. Then the phrases are opened in the browser on Jisho.org for you to see and interpret based on context.
KanjiTomo is meant for streams with lower traffic. I don't recommend this for streams with consistently busy chats. I'm working on an update to handle heavier streams
To set up KanjiTomo, after you download the files on your machine create a new file tomo.ini.
Copy the contents of examples/config-tomo.ini into the new file, and replace with your Twitch credentials (to get a Twitch Chat Oauth Password, go here).
Alternatively, you can fill in your credentials in config-tomo.ini and rename the file to tomo.ini.
When you start your stream simply run tomo.py like any other python file.
Tomo will open each Jisho.org message in a new tab.
- Language detection
- Frontend functionality (to eliminate numerous tabs in a browser)
- options to save or export characters, phrases and entries
- Coloring characters based on frequency or JLPT level
Talking to native speakers was the best way that I improved my language skills. I got the idea for this after starting a streaming channel where I reviewed JLPT Kanji, read books, and talked about all kinds of things with native speakers through the chat.