Format text during Chinese to English conversion

Question

I'm using python 3.6.8, other versions are not usable. I need to convert a pandas column from Chinese to English, which contains around 20% Chinese text. Due to client requirements, I cannot use a translation API or library like Google Translate; instead I must use the pinyin package.

So I wrote the following code

import pinyin

df['Pinyin_Text'] = df['Chinese_Text'].apply(lambda text: pinyin.get(text,format="strip", delimiter=" "))

But I'm seeing that my Pinyin_Text field is providing phonetic transcription. I would like to format my Pinyin_Text field. Can you suggest to me how I can achieve that?

Answer 1

You can achieve this goal by giving Style.Normal parameter, some version changes will be required in your current setup if you are using a different library version, for this example the version I am using is 0.53:

pip install pypinyin

The code to get the desired result using the delimiter " " works as follows:

#using the version of library pypinyin-0.53
from pypinyin import pinyin, Style

texttogetphonetictoenglishalpha = "你好 你好，世界 你好"
pinyin_textcomplete = pinyin(texttogetphonetictoenglishalpha, style=Style.NORMAL)
pinyin_resultonlyEnglisAlpha = ' '.join([word[0] for word in pinyin_textcomplete])

print(pinyin_resultonlyEnglisAlpha)

The result returns alphabetic pronunciation in English instead of Phonetic symbols, I did not try with numbers, this should do the task.