whu-mt / ppat

People & Places Automated Translator

When translating games such as Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universals 4, there are many names of places and people for translators to search in search engines and dictionaries, which will slow down their efficiency and enthusiasm. This project is aimed to translate the names automatedly but accurately.

Getting Started From Scratch

Notice: Your Python version should either be 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7. And if your platform is Windows, you should build or download espeak binary executable manually and put the espeak.exe in ppat/espeak/espeak.install/bin/ folder. Following instructions are for Debian family distributions (with APT).

1. Clone project by git clone https://github.com/EnderQIU/ppat.git or git clone [email protected]:EnderQIU/ppat.git. If you want to clone espeak submodule at the same time, add --recursive option to the end.
2. Simply run python setup.py install and follow the instructions in it.
3. Command ppat is ready on your shell.

Usage

• Most common usage:

$ ppat
!!!Welcome to PPAT transliterate engine!!!

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Version v1.0
Start loading rule files...

[OK] Rule file "/home/*************/rules/en-us.rule".

All rule files are loaded!
Input names of people or places after the prompt.
Type ":help" for more instructions.

• Enable verbose mode to debug your rule files:

$ ppat verbose

Write Transliteration Rules

Transliteration rules are stored in ppat/rules directory. You can write your own rule for a specified language follow the en-us.rule example.

Acknowledgement

Portion of this software may utilize the following copyrighted materials, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.

• espeak

Authors

• EnderQIU

License

This project is open-sourced under the GPL v3 License.

About Copyright

1. No copyright infringement intended.
2. If there is a copyright violation content, please e-mail [email protected] to delete.
3. No money is being made of this project.