Typing in ones own language is the first step for many users in using a computer and the Internet. To enable that, Transliteration went global at the end of last year, with the addition of 6 non-Indian languages to the initial set of 11 Indian languages.
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of transliteration support for 5 new languages - Amharic, Tigrinya, Hebrew, Oriya and Sinhalese. With this launch, Google Transliteration supports 22 languages spoken across Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. These new languages are currently available in Google Labs or at http://www.google.com/transliterate.
You can select from one of 22 supported languages:
Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hebrew, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi,Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya and Urdu.
You can also compose richly formatted text and look up word definitions with our dictionary integration. If the default transliteration is not the word you wanted, you can highlight it to see a list of alternatives. For even finer-grained control, we provide a unicode character picker to allow character-by-character composition.
As with all labs products, we will continue to improve the technology and try out new features. We would love to hear from you, so do let us know what you think.
Posted by: Nilesh Tathawadekar and Mohammed Aslam, Software Engineers
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