Emoji Translator

Inspiration

We wanted to extend the emoji-suggesting functionality of iMessage and Venmo to the problem of translating entire texts into emoji, as people have manually done with texts varying from Beyoncé songs to Moby-Dick.

What it does

Given a text file, it spits out a word-by-word translation of the text into emoji.

How we built it

Python, regex, and an enormous file containing Google's word2vec model trained on Google News articles.

Challenges we ran into

Learning regex in a few hours

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to inundate the command line with emoji

What we learned

Apparently "om" is similar to a lot of words. Very zen.

What's next for Emoji Translator

Realistically, a web-based UI. Our pipe dream is to translate the script of the Emoji Movie into emoji.

Built With

• python
• word2vec