Or, as an Orc might say:
"Sausdrospo? Jl'gras GUSSFORT bav elf gib!"
Gibberify is a simple gibberish generator that translates words from a real language to an (almost) pronounceable gibberish.
If you have python (3.6+) installed:
pip install --user git+git://github.com/brisvag/gibberify.git#egg=gibberifyPip should automatically add the script to your PATH, so you can simply run gibberify from the command line.
No worries! For ease of use, there is also a standalone executable version of Gibberify, that you can find here, under "Assets". Download the latest release for your operative system, unzip it and double-click the shit out of it.
The standalone was generated with PyInstaller using the configuration file `gibberify.spec`.
If you want to generate it yourself, just run `pyinstaller gibberify.spec` from the main
directory (you will need pyinstaller installed).
To open the graphical interface, simply run:
gibberify
(or just double click on the executable).
DISCLAIMER: the reverse translation function is experimental and, frankly, terrible. Don't expect much from it.
You can also translate from the command line. To print the help, run:
gibberify -h
To change settings in the GUI, go click on edit and then settings.
WARNING: EXPECT THE PROGRAM TO FREEZE FOR A FEW SECONDS AFTER SAVING!
Several options are available to tune the gibberish language generation:
pool: pool of real languages to use as a starting point for syllable generationenrich: letters (or patterns) that you want to have a lot ofimpoverish: letters (or patterns) that you want to have few ofremove: letters (or patterns) that you want NONE of
The following is an example config for orcish:
"orc": {
"pool": ["ru", "de"],
"enrich": ["g", "k", "r"],
"impoverish": ["w"],
"remove": []
}
This config results in a language based on Russian and German in which g, k and r appear often and
w appears rarely. You can also use patterns (such as mom) instead of single letters and specify the same thing
more than once (such as ["g", "g", "g"]) to enrich/impoverish even more.
pip install --user --upgrade PyQt5
pip install --user --upgrade PyQt5-sip... and now get strange errors, it might be caused by changes in the core file structures from older versions. To remove all the old files and start anew, try running:
gibberify --uninstallIf this doesn't fix it, come back here and open an issue, copy-pasting the error message.
To edit the configuration from the command line:
gibberify --configBe careful not to screw up the json format!
If anything goes wrong, gibberify will open the config file to let you try and fix it. If that fails too, it will revert to defaults and save a backup of your broken configuration.
If you just changed some settings for the gibberish languages, you can simply re-build only the translation dictionaries:
gibberify --rebuild-dictsSyllables are generated (and later matched) using hyphenation rules from several languages at the same time for a few reasons:
- generate reasonable outcome, in contrast to (for example) English alone.
wardrobeandnightstandcontain only one syllable? For real? - be more consistent, producing a more useful set of syllables that contain fewer weird strings that appear only once in the whole language. This is particularly useful for reverse translations.
Right now the gibberish dictionaries I'm "shipping" have settings that I arbitrarily decided. They sound much better now that they used to, but please, try out some stuff yourself and let me know if you find anything better!
Do you want to change it? Feel free to fork and PR! For testing, you can also import gibberify as a module
(this is now much easier and better!):
import gibberify
# anything configuration related
conf = gibberify.Config()
conf.edit()
conf.write()
# build dictionaries based on the config
gibberify.build(conf)
# translate something
tr = gibberify.Translator('en', 'orc')
# just call it to run a translation
tr('I love ALE!')
# you can change attributes, and the translation updates accordingly
tr.text_in = 'This is a new text!'
tr.lang_out = 'gob'
tr()Gibberify uses words taken from a streamlined version of wooorm/dictionaries (forked here) to generate new syllables, which are then used to convert real language into a wrangled mess of nonsense.
A pre-generated collection of syllables is hosted on gibberify-data,
to expedite the installation. However, you're free to generate the syllables yourself from scratch by downloading the aforementioned
words with --force-download.
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