Google’s transliteration technology has now come to Gmail – one can send emails in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
The feature is enabled for Indian users, but if you don’t see the language menu, hop to settings page and enable the ‘transliteration’ checkbox (via).
Google’s transliteration is also available for Blogger, Orkut, and iGoogle.
I tried out the feature and the implementation doesn’t seem to match what Google did with Blogger – few texts aren’t translated, one needs to wait to see the transliterated version (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t).
What’s your opinion on Google’s transliteration technology? Best among the lot?
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wow – it works quite well. Most of us have attempted writing vernacular using the english alphabet (e.g. Kyon kaise ho). Google just takes that and converts it to ????? ???? ??. thats what Google does best – dont change user behavior.
Now, if I can only have this inside a html-editor component (e.g. tinymce or fckeditor) so I can get my site visitors to type in their local language. Cool find.
I guess its a fools day .. prank … google seems to be launching lot of new products today
like this http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-google-brain-search-for.html
In the settings, where ‘transliteration’ checkbox(via) is available to enable it? Please help me.