{"id":36,"date":"2004-07-05T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.localguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/electronic-dictionaries\/casio-ex-word-xd-470\/"},"modified":"2005-07-09T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T07:18:38","slug":"casio-ex-word-xd-470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/electronic-dictionaries\/casio-ex-word-xd-470\/","title":{"rendered":"Casio EX-word XD-470"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pic-top\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/japan\/wp\/wp-content\/pic\/casio-xd-470.jpg\" alt=\"Casio EX-word XD-470\"\/><\/div>\n<p>I played with a Casio EX-word XD-470 for a little while in a shop. I was very tempted to buy it. The big selling point was handwriting recognition. You can handwrite kanji and kana on the screen using a stylus, and look up words that way. This is definitely better than trying to figure out the radical on some unusual kanji.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The accuracy of the recognition was pretty good. As you write, it displays a list of what it thinks you are trying to enter. When you see the right one you can just tap it and it will be entered.<\/p>\n<p>The dictionary size on this device was significantly smaller than the Wordtanks&#8217; dictionaries. Because of this, and the fact that it costs 15,000 yen, I decided to leave it on the shelf. For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played with a Casio EX-word XD-470 for a little while in a shop. I was very tempted to buy it. The big selling point was handwriting recognition. You can handwrite kanji and kana on the screen using a stylus, and look up words that way. This is definitely better than trying to figure out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}