Pythonic Bhashini Translator

This is a Python interface to Bhashini API, a powerful language service for Indian languages.

Setup and use

Install bhashini_translator package.

pip install bhashini_translator

Befrore you can use it, you need to get necessary authentication details:

1. Sign up, register and verify your email here.
2. Go to the profile section and generate API key.
3. Copy userId, ulcaApiKey and InferenceApiKey. All these values must be set in environment (using dotenv or any other way) for this to work.

from bhashini_translator import Bhashini

Translate text:

bhashini = Bhashini(sourceLanguage, targetLanguage)
bhashini.translate(text)

Text to speech, returns a base64 encoded string:

bhashini = Bhashini(sourceLanguage)
base64String = bhashini.tts(text)

Automatic speech recognition and translation to text, in target language:

bhashini = Bhashini(sourceLanguage, targetLanguage)
text = bhashini.asr_nmt(base64String)

Bashini expects us to use ISO-639 series language codes.

Here is the list of languages supported by the IndicTrans2 models:

Assamese (asm_Beng)	Kashmiri (Arabic) (kas_Arab)	Punjabi (pan_Guru)
Bengali (ben_Beng)	Kashmiri (Devanagari) (kas_Deva)	Sanskrit (san_Deva)
Bodo (brx_Deva)	Maithili (mai_Deva)	Santali (sat_Olck)
Dogri (doi_Deva)	Malayalam (mal_Mlym)	Sindhi (Arabic) (snd_Arab)
English (eng_Latn)	Marathi (mar_Deva)	Sindhi (Devanagari) (snd_Deva)
Konkani (gom_Deva)	Manipuri (Bengali) (mni_Beng)	Tamil (tam_Taml)
Gujarati (guj_Gujr)	Manipuri (Meitei) (mni_Mtei)	Telugu (tel_Telu)
Hindi (hin_Deva)	Nepali (npi_Deva)	Urdu (urd_Arab)
Kannada (kan_Knda)	Odia (ory_Orya)