MoEDict outdated readings ?

[shiki]

I've noticed on many words the MOE dict will have wrong or rather outdated pronunciation readings sometimes. I assume that's just the old reading but if I go to the Ministry of education website with the online dictionary I see an updated pronunciation like this for example:

<去年> 辭典檢視 - 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》2021

dict.concised.moe.edu.tw

Assuming this is the same dictionary that was added into pleco and I've heard that data is supposed to be open source or free, could you update the MOE dict data please? I'd really appreciate it!

BTW the TTS works great on my phone now, thank you so much.

 

[mikelove]

The latest MoEDict data on their website seems to have the same tones for 去年. I don't think this is the same dictionary - if you check the examples under that entry, MoEDict has more + different ones.

 

[shiki]

I see. Is the dictionary I linked free and able to be added to pleco someday?

 

[mikelove]

I don't see anything on the website about it being free to download, unfortunately.

 

[shiki]

The dictionary is called 《國語辭典簡編本》.
It and others such as a very nice idioms dictionary can be downloaded here: https://language.moe.gov.tw/001/Upload/Files/site_content/M0001/respub/index.html

Can they be added to Pleco please?

 

[mikelove]

Will investigate, but we have kind of a big backlog of new titles at the moment (trying to get all of our existing ones over to 4.0 first) so it may be a while. In the meantime, you could always format it as a tab-delimited text file and import it yourself as a user dictionary.