Transliterate text into english text

[sameek mishra]

Hi All,

I want to transliterate text into English in the following way :

Hindi - "आपका स्वागत है"

to

English - "aapaka svaagat hai"

Please suggest API which helps me to achieve the above requirement.

Thanks

[Adam Bittlingmayer]

Hi Sameek,

For transliteration *into* the Latin script from scripts like Devanagari, Cyrillic etc, you don't need a paid API, you can just use a free library.

It won't be perfect, but neither is the one in the Google Translate UI.

(For transliteration from the Latin script other scripts, you'd need an API or statistical approach like seq2seq.)

Adam

[sameek mishra]

Thanks Adam.

We are looking into your suggested library, also could you please guide me paid API which provides transliteration into the Latin script from scripts like Devanagari, Cyrillic etc.

Thanks

[Adam Bittlingmayer]

Hi Sameek,

Google used to have one, but it was deprecated.

The only APIs for transliteration I know of are:

- Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/translator/reference/v3-0-transliterate

- ModelFront (private beta)

Microsoft does not cover all language/script pairs and may not be a great fit for user-generated content because it requires you to specify the source language and script.

If you're really interested in more then contact us at ModelFront.

Adam

[tielve]

You can still use our Transliterate deprecated API, but please read the deprecation policy first.

Kind regards,

[Adam Bittlingmayer]

Hi all,

The old Google Transliterate API was for going the other direction (e.g. Hindi written in the Latin alphabet to proper Hindi in Devanagari).

(I contributed to it ca. 2008-2009.)

Adam