Replicating IndicXlit in restricted network

[gk1089]

Dear AI4Bharat team,
Thank you for putting together this excellent project. The outcomes of the English to Hindi transliteration have been beyond expectations (as set by previously existing tools).

I am trying to replicate this project in a local network with restricted internet access and need your help in understanding few things:

1. My current challenge is getting this library working for English to Hindi transliteration. I have installed all the dependencies and the python library using the pip install ai4bharat-transliteration command. But upon summoning the library using the below code through python:
   from ai4bharat.transliteration import XlitEngine
e = XlitEngine("hi", beam_width=10, rescore=True)
   I am getting a wall of errors basically saying that the github link to download the indicxlit-en-indic-v1.0.zip file is not permitted in our network.

I shall be able to download the required file separately and copy it on the restricted network, but I have no clue where to put it or what to do with it. Please guide me for the same.

2. I noticed that during installing the XlitEngine a lot of libraries that are related to Machine Learning are installed. I wonder if these are actually required for bare-minimum functioning of the library. For example, we plan to use just English-Hindi transliteration feature and are setting it up in a headless Linux Virtual Machine. As such, we won't need to train the models and any future updates in your project would be simply replicated.

Therefore, my question: is there any way to set up a bare minimum portion of the library or will you be considering the same in future?

Please let me know if we can contribute in any way by testing the system out.

Best wishes!

Gaurav