Just to start, let me say this. I love confessing other people’s sins. You know how it is — other people are just so messed up! Other people have so much crap for me to be angry at them for. And it’s so much easier than dealing with my own stuff. I could go on…
What It’s Like In The Beginning When You Don’t Know Jack. Or, How To Watch Japanese TV.
by khatzumoto
A while ago, someone asked me what it’s like in the beginning. What it was like for me when starting on this journey to becoming one with Japanese. It’s a great question, and I think the answer will be valuable, so here are some points I thought up. 1. It’s scary When starting out Japanese,…
Spoken Japanese Verbatim Text: Transcript of a TV Interview with ANNO Hideaki
by khatzumoto
As many of you know, it’s one’s duty as a geek to love Neon Genesis Evangelion. Recently, I was rewatching the show, and then reading about in on Wikipedia. Anyway, there’s a link there to the text of a 2004-ish TV interview with the creator/director, ANNO Hideaki (庵野秀明[あん-の-ひで-あき]). It’s a good example of very natural,…
Japanese Text-to-Speech Engine
by khatzumoto
So I was sniffing around Google, looking for something interesting to read, and came across this article at a place called ネットマニア(NetMania). It would appear that Pentax are in the process of developing a very good, natural sounding text-to-speech engine. And here I thought all they did was make cameras — as it turns out,…
Cookies
by khatzumoto
Having noticed that a couple of people had trouble logging in to KhatzuMemo, let me note that you do need cookies enabled on your browser. Since KhatzuMemo’s designed to be used on a daily basis, the cookies allow you to not have to log in every day. Cookies can be enabled on a case-by-case, site-by-site…
Monita’s Digital Dictionary: More Fun and Learning
by khatzumoto
Fun and learning are a great combination. You get to enjoy yourself now, and take some knowledge with you into the future. With that in mind, here’s another website recommendation. As part of the Yomiuri Shimbun Online Geek Section, there’s a fun column called “Monita’s Digital Dictionary“, it isn’t really a dictionary at all, but a…