Github: github.com/osama-khalid...

You can download it for Chrome here: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/osama...

and for Firefox here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

And because I enjoy making videos, I made a short video demoing the functionality and the problem it solves. 3/n

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2B-...

Problem: Everytime I come across a word in my L2 that I don't know, I find myself copy-pasting it into a translator and it breaks my reading flow.

Solution: A tool that can instantly translate a selected word to my L1 using a keyboard shortcut, and it tracks of all the new words I look up. 2/n

References
1. ai.meta.com/research/no-...
2. onlinebooksoutlet.com/products/roa...
3. huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko...

Over the weekend, I digitized and OCRed parts of it and then used Kokoro TTS [3] to generate an audiobook.

This is a proof of concept—not intended to be perfect, but rather an attempt to probe the limits of TTS in Urdu. 3/3

Once upon a time my friend, Abdullah gave me a copy of Roald Dahl's Boy that his mom had translated into Urdu [2]. 2/3

🙋‍♂️ I am finishing my PhD

I believe ں is not just a dotless ن, but as a nasal vowel has an independent existence, and should be treated like a separate letter.
on the other hand ء is just a diacritic and has no place in the Urdu Alphabet!
#linguistics