translate-my

A translation tool based on mesolitica/malaysian-translation on huggingface. Cover Bahasa Melayu > English and vice versa with support for Bahasa Pasar, Manglish and others.

Development

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/0xn1/translate-my.git

# navigate to the dir
cd translate-my

# install dependencies
bun i

# setup env file
mv .env.local.example .env.local

# run dev in port 1331
bun run dev --port 1331

Token

You need to get Hugging Face access token and paste it in the .env.local file.

HF_TOKEN=[YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]

Stack

• NextJS
• TailwindCSS
• Huggingface.js

Features

• PWA (Add to Home Screen on mobile / Install app in web)
• Simple UI & UX
• Translate Malay, English, Bahasa pasar, Manglish, and vice versa
• API endpoint at api/translate
• Can switch model with any text-generation-inference model in huggingface

API

Endpoint

/api/translate

Query Parameter

text : input text to be translated (URI encoded)

lang : language (pick from options below)

Language options

English : Inggeris

Malay : Malay

Bahasa Pasar : pasar Melayu

Manglish : Manglish

Example

/api/translate?text=ikan%20goreng%20sedap%20tak%3F%20banyak%20ke%20merkuri%20dalam%20tu%3F&lang=Inggeris

will return

{
  "generated_text": "Is fried fish delicious? Is there a lot of mercury in it?"
}

Reference

• mesolitica translation model
• mesolitica malaysian-translation space
• malaya docs