AbeDevSaga/amharic-english-translator

Amharic to English translator and vice versa # 🌍 Amharic-English Translator — Local Transformer Model --- ## 📖 Overview This project is a local Amharic-English (and vice versa) translation tool using Facebook's M2M100 multilingual transformer model. It runs locally with a pre-downloaded model for quick and offline translation between English and Amharic. Built in Python with Hugging Face's `transformers` library, PyTorch/TensorFlow backend support, it provides a simple CLI interface for translating texts interactively. --- ## ⚡ Features - ✅ Offline translation using a local pre-trained M2M100 model - 🔄 Supports bidirectional translation: English ⇄ Amharic - 💬 Interactive CLI mode with continuous input loop - 🚀 Quick, low-latency translations with batch decoding - 🛠️ Easy to extend for other language pairs - 🧹 Clean, simple Python code structure --- ## 📦 Installation ```bash git clone github.com cd amharic-translator pip install -r requirements.txt # Make sure your local model is placed in the /model directory python translate.py