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https://github.com/jerinphilip/ibus-slimt-t8n
Translation input method engine (IME) using ibus
https://github.com/jerinphilip/ibus-slimt-t8n
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Translation input method engine (IME) using ibus
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jerinphilip/ibus-slimt-t8n
- Owner: jerinphilip
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2024-01-09T08:33:20.000Z (12 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-01-09T18:51:09.000Z (12 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-08T02:49:21.568Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: ibus, ibus-ime, machine-translation, neural-machine-translation
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 53.7 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# ibus-slimt-t8n
[](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html)
Repurposes [Intelligent Input Method
Bus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus) (iBus) to intercept
text entered into a field by a user, and insert translated text in it's place
into any graphical application. Hence, this allows you as a user to enter text
in a language you know, while the field gets the translated text. Useful when
interacting with websites or agents in a foreign language.
See the software in action below:
The functionality will work in any GUI application which requests
keyboard-input - browser, text-editors, mail-clients, chat-clients etc.
## Setup
Setup requires the following:
* Compiler supporting C++17 or higher.
* [slimt](https://github.com/jerinphilip/slimt), which provides a
commodity machine (most CPUs) inference engine for the neural models
powering machine translation.
* ibus and GLIB 2.0 libraries (for GTK and iBus)
* yaml-cpp
**Installing Dependencies** On ArchLinux, dependencies can be installed by:
```bash
pacman -S ibus glib2
pacman -S yaml-cpp
```
For [slimt](https://github.com/jerinphilip/slimt), follow instructions in the
repository. Package management (models) is done by _slimt_, and
`ibus-slimt-t8n` is downstream to slimt. The command-line that also manages
packages can be installed via PyPI and can operate standalone.
```bash
python3 -m pip install slimt
slimt ls
slimt download
```
**Building from source** Once things are in place, run the following steps to
build and install `ibus-slimt-t8n` and associated files required for
integration into ibus.
```
# Configure.
cmake -B build -S .
# Build
cmake --build build --target all
# Install.
sudo cmake --build build --target install
# Install the project...
# -- Install configuration: "Release"
# -- Up-to-date: /usr/local/libexec/ibus-slimt-t8n
# -- Up-to-date: /usr/share/ibus/component/slimt-t8n.xml
# -- Up-to-date: /usr/local/share/icons/bergamot.png
```
**First run** For first time install:
1. Restart GNOME (in case the entry does not appear among available input methods).
2. Restart `ibus-daemon` (`ibus-daemon -rXv`) so the ibus parent updates to be
aware of `slimt-t8n.xml` and is capable of spawning the ibus engine
(`ibus-slimt-t8n`).
From time to time, you may configure `ibus-slimt-t8n` using the script supplied
([`scripts/ibus-slimt-t8n-configure.py`](./scripts/ibus-slimt-t8n-configure.py),
requires python and [`slimt`](https://pypi.org/project/slimt/) python package),
installed previously.
```bash
python3 scripts/ibus-slimt-t8n-configure.py \
--default browsermt/en-de-tiny \
--verify
```
The generated configuration is located at `$HOME/.config/ibus-slimt-t8n.yml`
which can be edited by hand to add your own models, as long the YAML remains
valid.
**Related Projects**
* [bergamot-translator](https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator)
* [translateLocally](https://github.com/XapaJIaMnu/translateLocally)
* [slimt](https://github.com/jerinphilip/slimt)
* [lemonade](https://github.com/jerinphilip/lemonade) (This repository is a
rebrand after reducing dependencies and using slimt).