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title: Turkic Transliteration Demo
emoji: 🌖
colorFrom: green
colorTo: green
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.29.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: apache-2.0
short_description: Transliteration of Kazakh & Kyrgyz into Latin and IPA
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# Turkic Transliteration Demo

## Overview
This Hugging Face Space demonstrates transliteration capabilities for Turkic languages, specifically Kazakh and Kyrgyz. The demo converts text between Cyrillic script, Latin script, and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) notation.

## Features
- **Bidirectional Transliteration**: Convert between Cyrillic and Latin scripts
- **IPA Transcription**: Generate accurate phonetic transcriptions using IPA
- **Language Selection**: Support for Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages
- **Interactive Interface**: User-friendly web interface powered by Gradio

## Usage
1. Select your source and target scripts
2. Choose the language (Kazakh or Kyrgyz)
3. Enter or paste your text in the input field
4. View the transliterated/transcribed output instantly

## Technical Details
This demo is powered by the `turkic-transliterate` Python package, which provides specialized transliteration tools for Turkic languages with high accuracy for linguistic research and practical applications.

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Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference

Kazakh to IPA Rule set from:
Mccollum, Adam & Chen, Si. (2018). Illustration of the IPA: Kazakh. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328290116_Illustration_of_the_IPA_Kazakh#fullTextFileContent
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