espoirMur/masakhane_twitter_bot

This is twitter bot that use Masakhane MNT models to translate your tweets in any African language [![Contributors][contributors-shield]][contributors-url] [![Forks][forks-shield]][forks-url] [![Stargazers][stars-shield]][stars-url] [![Issues][issues-shield]][issues-url] [![MIT License][license-shield]][license-url] [![LinkedIn][linkedin-shield]][linkedin-url] Masakhane Lingala Transaltor A twitter bot that use masakhane NMT model to translate your tweets from English to Lingala Explore the docs » View Demo · Report Bug · Request Feature ## Table of Contents * About the Project * Built With * Getting Started * Prerequisites * Installation * Usage * Roadmap * Contributing * License * Contact * Acknowledgements ## About The Project Masakhane is a open source started in September 2019 that aims to build translation models for African languages. This project is a bot that use the English-Lingala MNT model from the project and help to translate your english tweets into Lingala Lingala is one of the most spoken language in DRC , however only few language has been translated into it. It's even hard to translate local languages to Lingala. That is why I thought it may be useful to translate English to Lingala. This bot help you to translate your english tweets into Lingala tweets , in the future it will integrate many languages and will perform a reverse translation. ### Built With * Python * Tweepy * JoeyMNT ## Getting Started To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps. ### Prerequisites To run this project make sure you have Python 3.6.5 installed in your laptop ### Installation 1. Clone the masakhane_twitter_bot ```sh git clone github.com ``` 2. Install requirements - Joey Mnt installation ```sh pip install git+github.com ``` - Install other requirement using : ```sh pip install -r requirements.txt ``` 3. Get Twitter Application credentials Follow this guide to create twitter application credentials. You need to have a twitter develop …