Blogger, Gmail, Orkut and a few other Google services offer transliteration facility by default so you can easily type characters in Hindi, Tamil & other popular Indian languages using the standard English (Roman) keyboard.
Here’s a quick demo of transliteration – you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and tool will automatically convert them into corresponding Hindi words.
Indic transliteration tools are pretty useful for typing text in Indian languages without having to memorize any complex sequence of characters but the problem is that not all websites support transliteration yet. For instance, if you need to edit a Hindi entry in Wikipedia or need to type a document in Telugu using Google Docs, it may not be that straight forward a process if you are used to the English keyboard.
Well not anymore. Google has released some useful transliteration bookmarklets that will help you type characters in your language on any website. These bookmarklets are available for Hindi, Arabic, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
To give this feature a try, drag the Type in Hindi bookmarklet on to your browser favorites.
If you need help, check this video tutorial on how to install bookmarklets.
That means you can now write Hindi messages in Google Chat using English keys or update Facebook status in your native language or even leave comments in an Arabic blog. The other big advantage is that you can now perform searches on Google and other places in your own language as shown in this screencast:
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/online-typing-tool-for-indian-languages/8856/
Tags: bookmarklets, feature, hindi, indic, language translation, transliteration, Software
Reader Comments
Transliteration thing is old .. But that bookmarklet feature is new .. Heard of it a couple of days ago .. a new news about google is that they are stripping the “beta” tag from many of their products
keep up the good work!
regards
Written by Vishal Chopra on 05.28.09
Amit,
the bookmarklet button “Type in Hindi” above is broken.
You may want to correct it.
Regards
-Arun
Written by Arun on 05.28.09
ഹായ് അമിട്ട്, താങ്കളുടെ ബ്ലോഗ് അടിപൊളി ആണ്
This is malayalam
It means ,your blog is great
Written by renjith on 05.28.09
Hello Amit
உங்கள் வலை பூவுக்கு நன்றி. இப்போது நான் தமிழிலேயே கருது சொல்ல முடியும்.
KCDesi
BTW This is Tamil. :)
Written by kcdesi on 05.28.09
Use firefox addon ‘gIndic’. here is the URL: link
Written by Jisan on 05.28.09
Transliteration is now available in Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Nepali
* Bengali ( link )
* Gujarati ( link )
* Marathi ( link )
* Nepali ( link )
Source:
link
Written by vijayraj on 05.29.09
It is a fantastic idea from google to indian market. by taking the perspective of internet penetration google will shortly receive greatest response from Indian consumers. It is also making people more interested towards Internet Search. When people will spend time into internet then online advertising market will grow.
Written by Accentor India on 05.29.09
Its great to have such bookmarklet… now easy to chat in hindi… :) one question how do you created the animated gif
Written by Ashutosh on 05.29.09
अरे भाई, यह तो बहुती उपयोगकार हैं !
धन्यवाद.
युगंधर.
Written by युगंधर on 05.30.09
Thanks for the information . Now I can search in my native language and also blog in my language.
Written by RevathiSankaran on 06.01.09