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Truecaller can now transliterate names to Hindi

Truecaller has launched a transliteration feature on the app that will display user names in Hindi. For the feature to work, users will have to update the app to version 6.10 and enable Hindi language options from the settings. The update is live on Google Play. This update should be useful for people using Android in Hindi, as previously names displayed by Truecaller on incoming calls were in English. It’s not clear if and when this feature will be implemented on other platform like Windows or iOS. As of now, Truecaller offers quite a few languages in its settings, although it's not clear if it can transliterate names into scripts other than Latin and Devanagari. 100m users in India: Last month, Truecaller reported that it crossed over 100 million users in India. Truecaller claims to have a database of 1.7 billion numbers from the country and blocks over 120 million spam calls daily. The company plans to hit 150 million users in India by the end of this year. Truedialer update: In September, Truecaller introduced an ‘availability’ feature on its Truedialer Android app where users could turn their availability to on and off. For this, both the users trying to call each other need to set Truedialer as their default calling app for to see these details, implying that the feature will be visible to only other Truedialer users. Funding in the pipeline? In August, we reported that the company was looking to raise $100 million in funding from as…

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