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Unaffiliated with this group, but there are a bunch of graded readers, romanized with Jyutping, freely available, and very high quality![1]
A dictionary program for Windows/Mac/Linux that I make [2], and another for mobile that I don’t make.[3]
Finally, a list of other good resources from Cantonese Alliance.[4]
[1] https://hambaanglaang.hk/
[2] https://jyutdictionary.com/
[3] https://www.pleco.com/
[4] https://cantonese-alliance.github.io/language.html
It's written in wenyang-lang, a programming language based on Classical Chinese: https://wy-lang.org/
Previously featured on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213406
This is pretty good for someone who can speak Cantonese but can't read/write it.
As an example, I speak Mandarin and can't read/write (much) Chinese characters as I spoke it at home while growing up in Australia. So, I can imagine there'd be quite a lot who are in a similar situation to me but with Cantonese who would benefit from this (not just as a learning tool).
I've been using the Zhongwen[0] browser extension to "read" websites that have Chinese characters for many years as hovering over Chinese characters will display a popup with the pronunciation ping yin. It may not be the speediest way of understanding a block of Chinese text.
I could imagine someone creating a browser extension that would replace the font used on the website(s) with the Cantonese Visual Font when the extension is enabled.
[0] https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen