english to ilonggo translator

It's always a happy time with your in-laws during the holidays! But not so much if they can't understand a word you say. We all need a translation app especially if there's a lot of dialects

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Inspiration

In the Philippines, there over 8 dialects and since it is customary to visit our relatives in the provinces. Unfortunately they speak Ilonggo! There are not much apps that translate from english to Ilonggo so i made one since Google Translate only has Cebuano-English

What it does

Currently it accepts a .wav file in english and translates it into Ilonggo text

How I built it

The model was made using a seq2seq model and a training set of 200+ english to ilonggo phrases. I used nodejs to accept a .wav file that uses Speech-to-text API in GCP and a jupyter notebook that act as server to do the translation with the model

Challenges I ran into

It was hard to acquire the training set as there were no existing ones. Another challenge is deploying the model as the code did not have a compatible model to deploy with Tensorflow-serving. So i improvised and created a microservice embedded in the jupyter notebook that was used in the REST API

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud that i was able to figure out a way to deploy the model which was coded using tensorflow checkpoints

What I learned

It was a challenge to deploy the ML models especially if the training method used was not compatible with Tensorflow-serving. It also require a lot of time to look for available datasets to train the model.

What's next for English to Ilonggo Translator

  1. enhance the input to accept realtime voice and do speech-to-text on the fly
  2. additional ilonggo word phrases

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