Thursday, August 21, 2008

Google for Tamil (Language) Reader / Writers

Google is making it easier for people who read and write in the Tamil language to get around the internet. Users can type in English and it is automatically translated into the equivalent sounding words in the Tamil language. They are offering this function in a number of services including Search, Blogger, and Orkut.


http://googleblog.blogspot.com
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-in-tamil.html

"The global nature of our mission is reflected in the phrases the "world's information" and "universally accessible." To this end, you may have recently read about our 40-language initiative and the story of a community coming together to develop Google search in the Maori language.

Following on this theme, we'd like to highlight a few new products that enable a better online experience for Tamil speakers around the world.

First, we just released Google News in Tamil. Like other Google News editions, we gather stories from the various Tamil news sources on the web and present an automatically- generated summary with links to the most important stories in each section.

We recognize that it can sometimes be hard to enter Tamil text with existing keyboards. Our transliteration technology enables the conversion from English text to phonetically equivalent text in Indian languages. For example, using transliteration, you could type "vanakkam" and we would convert it to Tamil script as வணக்கம். We have embedded this technology in several Google products to make it easier to enter text in Tamil.
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