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Filament Auto Translate

Inline, as-you-type transliteration and translation for Filament form inputs.

Type Roman Urdu, press space, and the word is rewritten in Urdu script — without leaving the field, opening a modal, or switching keyboards. Built for data-entry teams who think in Urdu but type on a Latin keyboard.

Why this exists

The existing Filament translation plugins are action-based (click a button, fill a per-locale modal) or automate static labels. None of them convert what the user is typing, as they type it. This package fills that gap: it is a keyboard-style input helper, not a content-translation workflow.

How it differs from "translation" plugins

It ships two distinct modes and keeps them strictly separate:

Transliterate mode never silently falls through to meaning-based translation. That separation is the whole point: a phonetic helper that quietly "translates" a word it didn't recognise is worse than one that leaves it alone.

Installation

The migration ships as a publishable stub, so use the install command above (php artisan migrate alone won't create the cache table until the migration is published). To publish manually instead:

Add the plugin to a panel:

That registers the header on/off toggle (next to global search) and injects the assets. Nothing else to wire up.

Usage

Mark any text field, textarea, etc. as translatable:

Turn the feature on with the header toggle. Focus a marked field, type a Roman word, press space — done. State persists per browser.

Configuration

Publish the config to customise providers, modes, language, route, and limits:

Key options:

• mode — global default (transliterate or translate).
• target_language — defaults to ur. The architecture is language-agnostic; v1 ships Urdu defaults.
• providers.transliterate / providers.translate — the ordered fallback chain for each mode. The lists are separate by design.
• provider_map — register your own provider (implement Contracts\TranslationProvider) and add its key to a chain.
• route.middleware — the endpoint is ['web', 'auth'] and throttled by default. It proxies to external translation APIs, so keep it authenticated.

Providers

Out of the box: Google Input Tools (transliteration), and MyMemory, LibreTranslate, Microsoft, Google plus a local JSON dictionary (translation). Unconfigured providers (missing API keys) are skipped automatically. Every successful conversion is cached permanently in the database, so repeats are instant and free.

Local dictionary

Point dictionary_path at a JSON file of { "source word": "target word" }. Use a {target} placeholder to ship one file per language:

The dictionary is checked before any network provider and only returns a hit when every word of a short phrase is known, so it never partially mangles input.

Building assets (contributors)

The compiled JS/CSS ship in resources/dist. To rebuild:

Testing

Roadmap

• Learn-from-correction: when a user fixes an applied word, remember it next time.
• Client-side fast path for the most common words (no network round-trip).
• A cache-management Filament resource.
• First-class support for additional target languages and scripts.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.md.