LWT is a all-in-one product, but you can extend its capabilities in various ways. Here are the additional features unavailable by default.

Parse Japanese with MeCab

MeCab is a Japanese parser. Installing it has two main advantages:

• Much better parsing of Japanese texts than RegExp.
• Automatic romanization of words.
• Enables text-to-speech for any character group.

Installation

Standard Installtion

1. Follow the instructions to download MeCab at https://taku910.github.io/mecab/#install.
2. Add MeCab to your system PATH.
3. In LWT, go to "Edit Languages" → "Japanese" and change from the value for "RegExp Word Characters" to mecab.

Using Docker

Original instructions provided here.

1. Run your LWT container in interactive mode and install MeCab.

   ```bash docker exec -it lwt bash apt-get update && apt-get install -y mecab libmecab-dev mecab-ipadic-utf8 ```

2. In LWT, go to "Edit Languages" → "Japanese" and change from the value for "RegExp Word Characters" to mecab.

Automatic Translation

LibreTranslate

LibreTranslate is a great open-source tool that allows you to translate text and provides an API. With it you can achieve the following:

• Translation of sentences without using Google Translate.
• Automatic translation of words (so you don't need to fill by hand!).

To use it, please read the following steps:

1. Install it on a local or remote server or using Docker.
2. In LWT, go to "Edit Langagues", either create a new or edit an existing language
3. In the field "Sentence Translator URI", replace it by the URL of you libre translate instance.
   • Do not forget to add the parameter lwt_translator=libretranslate for the automatic translation!
   • source= should be followed by two letters indicating the language translating from.
   • target= should be followed by two letters indicating the language to translate to.

Enhanced Text-to-Speech

The Text-to-Speech may sound robotic with some languages or operating systems. A workaround is to download a Text-To-Speech (TTS) plugin such as Read Aloud.