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Google Introduces Indian Language Transliteration In Gmail

Updated below Google India has introduced Indic Language transliteration on Gmail and Google Apps. Transliteratoin allows people using an English language keyboard to type in the local language. Other companies that provide Indic transliteration include Quillpad from Tachyon Technologies, in which Rediff has 26% stake. Tachyon had powered Rediff's Indic language capabilities. I logged on to the MediaNama mail account on Google Apps this morning to find a small dropdown menu, allowing me to choose between the five languages that Google is currently providing transliteration for -- Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. In this context, to take look at the discussion around Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan's comment that readers may not want Indic language, based on low usage of Rediff's Indic language email.  Update: Works With Regular Gmail As Well I did not find the same enabled for my Gmail account, when I had initially logged in. I had to change the language preference to Hindi, which meant that my inbox was displayed in Hindi, for the same feature to be enabled. So what of users who prefer to communicate mostly in English, but would still like to type a few sentences in another language? Rahul Roy-chowdhury of Google suggested that I try logging out of GMail, and then logging in - and it worked.  I do think this will go down well with Hindi language journalists -- at FICCI Frames earlier in Feb, I noticed a journalist from Dainik Jagran using the Indic Transliteration to type out his article in…

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