libtabe is a library that provides useful Chinese functions and
routines that deal with many fundamental elements, such as
pronunciation(BoPoMoFo), character frequency, word identification, and
word frequency. libtabe also comes with a free word database consisting
of 140,000 words.

More functionality is expected to be put into the library in the
future.

A practical application of libtabe is the intelligent phonetic input
method interface, bims. bims accepts input in BoPoMoFo and generates
output as meaningful sentences.

The XCIN-2.5 bimsphone module is based directly on libtabe and bims. In
the future, more modules might also be based on it.