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Is reverse transliteration possible? #236

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slavaGanzin opened this issue Feb 7, 2022 · 2 comments
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Is reverse transliteration possible? #236

slavaGanzin opened this issue Feb 7, 2022 · 2 comments

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@slavaGanzin
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Hi. @barwin
Awesome project, use it a lot, and it works flawlessly!

But now I had a reverse problem: I need to transliterate something from English.
My use case is translation: for example, company names or people surnames shouldn't be translated at all.

Of course, to get flawless results graphemes need to be transcribed phonetically to IPA and then reconstructed to graphemes in target language. But it sounds like a whole a lot a work. But if you know something already working, I'll appreciate some links.

I'm not searching for flawless, I'd be happy with "it works somehow".
So, how do you think, can this be done with this library? Will it work at least in 90% of a time?

I'm asking you, as an expert in this field, that knows obvious (not for me) caveats.

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barwin commented Feb 7, 2022

@slavaGanzin I agree it's a great project, but it's not mine :) I think you mean to ping @dzcpy

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dzcpy commented Feb 7, 2022

Yes, I think it's possible. But it's a bit too complicated and I don't have enough knowlege and data to implement it. Anyway I'll keep this issue open. PRs are also welcome!

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