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https://github.com/dabit3/transilator
Text translation and synthesization Chrome plugin
https://github.com/dabit3/transilator
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Text translation and synthesization Chrome plugin
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dabit3/transilator
- Owner: dabit3
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-08-28T02:25:41.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-06-16T09:16:16.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-24T21:28:34.073Z (20 days ago)
- Topics: aws, aws-amplify, chrome, chrome-extension, chrome-extensions, javascript, serverless
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 4.4 MB
- Stars: 46
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
This code goes along with my blog post [How to Build an AI Enabled Natural Language Synthesization Chrome Extension](https://dev.to/dabit3/how-to-build-an-ai-enabled-natural-language-synthesization-chrome-extension-1bhl).
## Transilator Chrome Extension
### Features
- Turns highlighted text into lifelike speech
- Text translation to language of your choice (arabic, english, chinese, dutch, spanish, portugese, danish, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, norwegian, polish, russian, swedish, turkish)
- Language detection (dutch, portugese, english, italian, french, spanish)
### Applications
- Learning a new language
- Listening to a news article, documentation, or blog post
- Reviewing a blog post / tweet before publishing it
- Users with vision problems / accessibility related use cases
- Listening to emails
- Listening to content from other languages
### Demo
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90uQ_LrpE0)
### Services used
This app uses Amazon Comprehend to interpret the language of the text, Amazon Translate for translation of the text, and Amazon Polly for voice synthesization of the text.
## Getting started
1. Clone the project and install the dependencies:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/dabit3/transilator.git
cd transilator
npm install
```
2. Initialize the Amplify project:
```sh
amplify init
```
3. Deploy the resources:
```sh
amplify push --y
```
4. Build the bundle
```sh
npm run build
```
5. Upload the extension to chrome
- Visit chrome://extensions (menu -> settings -> Extensions).
- Enable Developer mode by ticking the checkbox in the upper-right corner.
- Click on the "Load unpacked extension..." button.
- Select the directory containing your unpacked extension.