How It Works
Launch Migao Watch from the Start Menu, or let it start at login. The rice cake icon appears in the system tray.
Type normally. If you forget to switch your IME, you get garbled text like su3cl3 instead of Chinese characters.
Select the garbled text (Ctrl+A), then press Ctrl+Alt+R. It's replaced in-place with 你好.
Press Ctrl+Alt+R again within 3 seconds to cycle through alternative candidates until you find the right one.
What's Included
System Tray Hotkey Windows only
migao-watch runs silently in the background — no terminal needed. Works in any app: LINE, browser, Word, VS Code.
macOS / Linux support is not yet available. Contributions welcome — open an Issue to discuss.
CLI Tool
Direct correction, pipe mode, list supported IME layouts, show multiple candidates. Scriptable and cross-platform.
Language Model
470 k-entry dictionary + bigram language model. Viterbi decoding picks the most natural Traditional Chinese word sequence.
Supported IME Layouts
bopomofo-daqian
Standard Zhuyin (Bopomofo) keyboard layout. Aliases: zhuyin, 注音. The most common layout in Taiwan.
pinyin
Full Pinyin on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Useful for Simplified Chinese users or anyone who types Pinyin.
Coming Soon
Korean 두벌식, configurable hotkey, personalised candidate memory. See the ROADMAP.