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Moka Chat User Guide

• Introduction
• Installation & Launching
• Using Moka Chat
• Customer Support

 Introduction 

Features

• Works in real-time Skype chats
• Supports Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish, with more languages coming!
• Cool and easy to use
• Great tool for learning a foreign language

System Requirement

• Skype 3.5 or above
• Windows XP Service Package 2, Windows Vista
• 100 MB free hard disk space

 Installation & Launching 

Installation

• Download the Moka Chat for Skype toolbar at www.moka.com
• When prompted to save or open the toolbar, select open.
• Once downloaded, you will be prompted, “Would you like to run mokachat.exe?” Select yes.
• The toolbar will install and create an entry in your startup menu called Moka Chat.

Note: If you have any previous version of Moka Chat installed, please uninstall it first and then install the latest version of Moka Chat.

First Time Use

If you are running Moka Chat for the first time. Skype may tell you that there is a program trying to modify chat messages. In order to have Moka Chat function properly, please allow it to modify your messages.
More Information

What the Moka Chat toolbar does

Your Moka Chat toolbar lets you communicate with someone in a foreign language using the chat function of Skype.

For example, you can type in English and they will receive your message in Spanish. They can then type in Spanish, and you will receive their message in English.

• Choose the to/from language
• Turn the real-time translation on or off
• Access the Moka website
• Do standalone translations

Launching the Moka Chat Toolbar

To launch the toolbar go to Start › Programs › Moka Chat folder › Moka Chat
The toolbar will launch, and you will see the following bar appearing on your screen:

You must launch the toolbar after you have launched Skype. Moka Chat will not work if Skype is not launched. The toolbar will NOT initially be sitting together with Skype. It will be in the upper right corner of your screen. For convenience, you might want to put it next to Skype. You can do this by clicking on the left most edge of the toolbar and dragging it to its new position.

 Using Moka Chat 

What’s on the toolbar

Drag Bar

Click and hold on the drag bar to move the toolbar.

Moka Website

Clicking on the word Moka will open the Moka website in your browser. You can find helpful tips and latest information on the website.

Choose your languages

A drop down box with the language pairs that Moka offers will pop up by clicking it.

Moka currently offers English, Spanish Chinese (Simplified) and Pinyin (Chinese written using the Latin alphabet)

English to Chinese	Translates from English into Chinese
Chinese to English	Translates from Chinese into English
English to Pinyin	Translates from English into Pinyin (Chinese using the Latin alphabet)
Chinese to Pinyin	Translates from Chinese into Pinyin (Chinese using the Latin alphabet)
English to Spanish	Translates from English into Spanish
Spanish to English	Translates from Spanish into English

 

Standalone Translation

Moka Chat also provides users the possibility to translate outside of Skype chat. The standalone translation will help you when you encounter sentences in other languages or when your friends do not have Moka Chat. Just input a sentence into the textbox and click the Enter button. You will then get what you want in no time.

Context Menu

Right-clicking the empty space on the bar will bring up a context menu with various items available to you.

Choose Language

You can choose what language the menus are displayed in.

Minimize

You can minimize the toolbar and it will be displayed as an icon in the right bottom corner of your screen. While minimized, you can also left-click or right-click it to bring up different context menus.

Always on Top

You can decide whether you would like the toolbar always on top of all windows or not.

Proxy Settings

• Right-click the toolbar to bring up the context menu
  
• Click on the Proxy Settings.
  
• The default option is Default Browser Proxy Settings. You can change the option according to your internet state.
• If you don’t need the proxy, choose <Direct Connection>.
• If you need to configure the proxy, please check to enable the proxy. To enable the proxy you configured, you need to do the following instructions:
  5.1 Please enter the domain or the IP address of the proxy host.
  5.2 Enter the port of the proxy host.
  5.3 Please check the Authentication and provide the account name and password if needed.
• Please restart Moka Chat to make your modification take effect.

Exit

You can quit Moka Chat by clicking this option.

About

Learn more about Moka Chat here.

Transparency

This will bring up a slider. You can move it to determine how transparent you would like the toolbar to be.

Online Help

You can access the online user guide from here.

Check for Updates

This will bring you to the Moka Chat download page where you can check for updates.

Notes about East-Asian Languages

Special note about using Chinese

Windows computers CAN display Chinese, but only if the East Asian Language Pack is installed. Otherwise, you will only see garbage characters on your screen. Pinyin solves that problem by allowing Chinese to be displayed in the Latin alphabet (the 26 letter alphabet English is written in).

You CAN write in English and the other person will receive the Chinese characters if they have the Asian Language pack installed. This is the suggested method if you are communicating with a person in China. The Chinese character set provides a more accurate translation than using Pinyin.

Limits about Pinyin

Pinyin does NOT as accurately represent Chinese as the Chinese characters do. For this reason, if you can, use the Chinese characters.

Due to Pinyin’s limits, you can translate from English into Pinyin, but not from Pinyin into English. This is because many nuances that Chinese characters contain are lost in Pinyin, leading to poor translation quality. This is not a limit of the Moka system; it is a limit of Pinyin itself.

Installing the East Asian Languages

Windows XP

• Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
• Click on the Languages Tab
• Put a check in front of “Install files for East Asian Languages
• Select “Apply”

Windows Vista

• Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
• Click on the Languages Tab
• Follow the instructions for installing a new language pack

 Customer Support 

Support Information

Need help with Moka Chat for Skype? Click here to visit our knowledge base or to contact customer support.

Comments? Feedback? Contact us at support@moka.com Please note that by doing so, you also grant to Moka and third parties permission to use and incorporate your ideas or comments into the Moka Chat Software (or third party software) without further compensation.