GeSMS: kata → კატა → кот

https://gesms.artme.dev

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Got an SMS from Georgian friends that reads gamarjoba, rogor khar? xval mogwer? Georgians often type in Latin letters: SMS, WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram messages written on phones without a Georgian keyboard. Regular translators don't understand this.

GeSMS turns Georgian written in Latin letters into real Georgian script and translates it right away into English, Russian, Turkish, Spanish or French.

• Understands different typing styles: sh, ch, kh, ts, dz, apostrophes (t', k', ch') and the Georgian keyboard layout (T, S, W, R, J, Z, C).
• Picks the meaningful variant. Ambiguous letters (t can be თ or ტ, k can be კ, ქ or ყ) are resolved with a dictionary. If the translation still looks like nonsense, other variants are tried.
• Works both ways. All three fields are editable: type a reply in your language and get it in Georgian script and in Latin letters, ready to send by SMS.
• Free, no sign-up, on phones and computers. Installable as an app (PWA).

По-русски. GeSMS переводит грузинские СМС, написанные латиницей: превращает их в грузинские буквы и переводит на русский, английский, турецкий, испанский или французский. Работает и в обратную сторону.

ქართულად. ლათინური ასოებით აკრეფილი ქართული ტექსტი ავტომატურად გადაიყვანება ქართულ შრიფტზე და ითარგმნება. მუშაობს პირიქითაც.

How it works

Plain JS with no dependencies or bundlers.

src/
  translit.js           transliteration: variants per word, dictionary-based choice, reverse to Latin
  translate.js          Google Translate (unofficial client=gtx), MyMemory fallback, retries for untranslated words
  i18n.js               UI texts in 5 languages, terms of use, install guide
  app.js, styles.css    UI
  template.html         page template, rendered into one static page per language (for SEO)
  sw.js, manifest.webmanifest   PWA
  dict.bin              17k most frequent Georgian word forms, ~46 KB
  icons/                kitten, app icons, social preview
scripts/
  build.mjs             src/ → dist/ (pages for /en/, /ru/, /tr/, /es/, /fr/, a root redirect to the chosen or browser language, sitemap, robots)
  build-dict.mjs        rebuilds src/dict.bin from the source corpora
  serve.mjs             local static server for dist/

Transliteration works offline; for translation the text is sent to Google Translate or MyMemory.

Development

npm start

Builds dist/ and serves it at http://localhost:8080/.

Rebuild the dictionary (downloads about 70 MB of source data):

npm run build:dict

Deployment

The Dockerfile builds dist/ and serves it with nginx. The site runs on the homelab server as the gesms stack of rostok, behind Traefik at gesms.artme.dev.

Data sources

The word list is built from the Leipzig Corpora Collection (CC BY 4.0) and FrequencyWords / OpenSubtitles (CC BY-SA 4.0).