Team40_ByteMe

Team40-InteractiveTranslator/README.md

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+<u>**INTERACTIVE TRANSLATOR** 🌎:</u> 
+
+The Interactive Translator is a group project made for Buffer 3.0, a DSA project competition arranged by club Loop of MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering, Pune.
+
+Link to Pitch Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Db5jcAFqp_av0uWMdUgmrSKucuvA_mk/view?usp=sharing
+
+**Objective :** 
+The main objective  of this project is to provide a user-friendly interface to help people with the translation in the five basic languages, Spanish , Italian, German, French and Portuguese. 
+to help people communicate easily in foreign countries
+to provide a portable, pocket friendly translator for smooth translation
+to broaden a person’s knowledge on a country’s language and culture.
+
+
+**Features :**
+Universal Translator for translating any custom text by the User
+Text to Speech conversion for a deeper understanding of how the words are pronounced
+A Quiz to test your knowledge about different languages,cultures and countries with images.
+Each language has 2 frames with commonly used phrases, words and sentences to instantly give the user a translation along with the pronunciation of the translated text.
+The user is able to freely navigate through the frames of all languages with buttons placed at appropriate positions
+There are various images placed throughout the interface to keep the user engaged and help them gain a more visual experience.
+Text to speech has been integrated with accented pronunciation for each unique language.
+
+**Programming Language:** Python
+
+**Data Structures used:** Dictionary, List,Dictionary with Lists
+
+**User-defined Functions :**
+
+clear_widgets() : erases all buttons,labels, voice boxes etc from the current frame.
+create_label(text): creates a label with specifications of size, colour, style etc with the text parameter
+create_buttons(text): creates a button with specifications of size, colour etc with the text parameter
+create_voicebtns(): creates voice buttons with specifications and a png file
+voice(): sets an appropriate accented voice for each language
+clickMethod(): translates any text in the selected language using googletrans 
+
+**Libraries used:** 
+PyQt5(GUI) and tools
+googletrans(universal translator)
+pyttsx3(text to speech)
+
+**Project Prospective:**
+- To make the code a workable app across mobile devices.
+- To make the code executable across multiple OS’s
+- To create a website with the same functionality of the app.
+- An online community that shares experiences and progress.
+- To make it easily accessible in areas with low internet access and unreliable connectivity.
+
+
+**Byte Me Team :** Esha Deo, Kanak Daulatani, Asavari Thorat, Srushti Pekamwar,Koshin Gautam.

Team40-InteractiveTranslator/requirements.txt

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+1)Install from website for appropriate version
+  python==3.7.9
+2)PyQt5 GUI:
+  pip install pyqt5==5.15.6
+  pip install pyqt5-tools
+3)Text to speech:
+  pip install pypiwin32
+  pip install pyttsx3
+4)Google Translate
+  pip3 install googletrans==3.1.0a0
+5)Add languages on PC languages:
+  step 1: Settings>Time & Language>Language>Preferred Languages>
+  Add Language>(add individually)
+  -German(Germany)
+  -Spanish(Mexico)
+  -Portuguese(Brazil)
+  -French(France)
+  -Italian(Italy)
+
+  step 2: Settings>Time & Language>Speech>Voices>Microsoft Elsa
+  step 3: Settings>Time & Language>Speech>Installed voice packages
+  ensure all above speech packages are installed, if not click on "Add voices"
+6)Download folder of images provided and place in the same filepath as .py file
+