Spoken to Written English:

How to run this code:

There's 2 folders IPYNB and PYCHARM, each containing one file containing code, and another containing the rules. Both need to be in the same folder to work.

You can dump the contents of the IPYNB folder into a Jupyter notebook, or run the Assignment 1.ipynb in Google Colab, and upload (drag-drop) the 'Replacement Rulebook.txt' into the sidebar. Run with Python 3 kernel.

If you use PyCharm or a similar IDE, you can simply open the entire folder as a project, and start by running Assignment 1.py. The code uses regex and csv, so please install them if required. This file can run using Python 3.7 interpreter.

Features of this Code:

This code uses three functions to process the text input to output.

Repeater:

Made to convert 'Triple A' and 'double x' to 'AAA' and 'xx' respectively. Also, humans usually follow double or triple with a single letter while speaking, so I added a check that'll make sure that common phrases using these words arent affected.

Eg: "Staff are entitled to double time for each statutory holiday worked" won't change by this code. But "We're working on a Triple A grade product" will be affected.

Translator:

This is where all your rules will be applied. 'Replacement Rulebook.txt' is a csv file with equal to sign as a separator, this code checks for item in LHS of = and then replaces it with RHS of =. You can add your own rules as long as the LHS is in UPPER CASE.

Eg: DOLLARS=$ in the .txt will make "I earn 30 dollars" to "I earn 30 $"

Text2Num:

This converts all text numbers in yout input to numeric form. It'll work on:

Years ('nineteen ninety seven'= 1997)

Pincodes ('one three eight five'= 1385)

Numbers ('eighty five thousand three hundred and twenty two'= 85322)

It's not perfect since there are times when the numbers won't be correct especially for complex examples where there's some hundreds of thousands, the word 'and' causes a few issues too.

UI:

I took the time to make the code user friendly by allowing the code to run until stopped by the user. Type Y or N to continue or exit the code. You can also exit by typing 'exit'.

Examples of spoken english are already in the file 'Spoken English Examples.txt' that use as many of the functions as possible to showcase what my code can do.