title	emoji	colorFrom	colorTo	sdk	sdk_version	app_file	pinned	license
The Language Transliteration Project	🔡	indigo	gray	streamlit	1.25.0	app.py	false	cc

Use this application on HuggingFace🤗 :- https://huggingface.co/spaces/DebasishDhal99/The-Language-Transliteration-Project

Blog discussing the results :- https://medium.com/@debasishdhaldd99/simplifying-language-through-python-aae6ee7113d9

This space is aimed at helping people with getting familiarized with Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian-Bosniak (both Latin and Cyrillic based) and Romanian spelling system.

Why?

The languages mentioned above, use a modified Latin script with a lot of diacritic marks and digraphs, thus often making them difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce or read the words properly. This space offers simplified spelling of words/sentence in the said languages. More languages are on the pipeline.

For example, the Polish word Jarosław, an English speaker who isn't familiar with Polish orthography will pronounce it as Jaroslav, while its actual Polish pronunciation is Yaroswav. Similary, the city of Przemyśl should be pronounced as Pzhemyshl, even though its not evident to an English speaker.

The approach for transliterating Polish language taken in this space is converting Polish character combinations to Cyrillic equivalents, which are single characters, thus simplifying our task greately.

Features added as of now:-

• Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian, Romanian language added.
• Option for the user to choose any of the 3-4 examples available and pass it as input to the model.
• Option for the user to generate a random but coherent sentence and pass it as input to the model. Acts as a nice playground for the user.

Results in brief

For each language, some names/placenames in that language were given to this web app as input, the simplified outputs are presented below.

Polish

Polish spelling => Simplified form

• Wojciech Szczęsny => Voytsiekh Shensny (Polish footballer)
• Grzegorz Krychowiak => Gzhegozh Krykhoviak (zh is pronounced like the "s" in measure/vision) (Polish footballer)
• Łódź => Wuj (Major Polish city)
• Rzeszow => Zheshov (Polish city near Ukraine)

Hungarian

Hungarian spelling => Simplified form

• Dominik Szoboszlai => Dominik Soboslai (Hungarian footballer)
• Budapest => Budapesht (Hungarian capital)
• Debrecen => Debretsen (Major Hungarian city)
• Pozsony => Pozhony (Hungarian name for Bratislava, capital of Slovakia)

Turkish

Turkish spelling => Simplified form

• Azerbaycan => Azerbayjan
• Türkiye => Tyurkiye (Turkey)
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan => Rejep Tayyip Erdo’an (Turkish president)
• Barış Alper Yılmaz => Baresh Alper Yelmaz (Turkish footballer)

Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian

Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian spelling => Simplified form

• Novak Đoković => Novak Jokovich (No introduction needed)
• Karadžić => Karajich (Serbain war criminal)
• Edin Džeko => Edin Jeko (Bosnian Footballer)
• Artiljerija => Artilyeriya (Artillery)

Romanian

Romanian spelling => Simplified form

• Cluj-Napoca => Kluzh Napoka (A city in Romanian Translyvania, also known as Klausenberg in German)
• București => Bukureshti (Bucharest)
• Angela Gheorghiu => Anjela Georgiu (Romanian singer)
• Constantin Brâncuși => Konstantin Brunkushi (Romanian Sculptor)

Note : - At the end, it's just best to learn the script and its pronunciation rules, from a long-term POV. However, not everyone has the time to do that. I think this project of mine provides a solution in short-term.

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Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference