Finetuned Colloquial Tamil

🚀 janisrebekahv/finetuned-colloquial-tamil

This is a fine - tuned model designed to translate English into colloquial Tamil, suitable for chatbots, conversational AI, and social media applications.

🚀 Quick Start

This model is a fine - tuned version for English to colloquial Tamil translation. You can load and test it using the Hugging Face Transformers library.

✨ Features

• ✅ Translates English → Colloquial Tamil
• ✅ Incorporates slang, informal speech, and real - world phrasing
• ✅ Useful for chatbots, conversational AI, and social media applications

📦 Installation

No specific installation steps are provided in the original document.

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer

# Load model and tokenizer
model_name = "janisrebekahv/finetuned-colloquial-tamil"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_name)

# Function to translate text
def translate(text):
    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_length=128)
    return tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)

# Example translations
test_sentences = [
    "This is so beautiful",
    "Bro, are you coming or not?",
    "My mom is gonna kill me if I don't reach home now!"
]

for sentence in test_sentences:
    print(f"English: {sentence}")
    print(f"Colloquial Tamil: {translate(sentence)}\n")

📚 Documentation

📌 Model Overview

This is a fine - tuned version of [suriya7/English - to - Tamil](https://huggingface.co/suriya7/English - to - Tamil), trained to produce colloquial Tamil translations instead of formal Tamil.

📜 Dataset

• 🔹 Custom Dataset Used for Fine - Tuning:
  • 📂 janisrebekahv/colloquial_tamil This dataset was specifically curated to train this model, improving its ability to translate English to Colloquial Tamil accurately.
  • This model was fine - tuned on a custom dataset, which includes:
    • 1️⃣ [jarvisvasu/english - to - colloquial - tamil](https://huggingface.co/datasets/jarvisvasu/english - to - colloquial - tamil) – A publicly available dataset for informal Tamil translations.
    • 2️⃣ YouTube Comments Dataset (Custom - Created) – Extracted using the YouTube API and manually converted to colloquial Tamil for authenticity.
    • 3️⃣ ChatGPT - Generated Data – Additional colloquial Tamil phrases aligned with natural speech patterns.
  • 📝 Total dataset size: 16,269 sentence pairs

📊 Model Information

📄 License

This model is released under the cc - by - 4.0 license.