Google Transliteration is not translation. it’s the sound of words converted from one alphabet to another. Keyboard is used for typing text. Typing is cumbersome in many parts of the world. Typing non Roman script with the help of Roman keyboard is quite tough to do. The Google Banglore office employees experienced this problem. In India Roman keyboard is a norm and typing Indian language using this is really tough. Google brought a solution and invented an easy to type phonetically using Roman characters under the name of ‘Google Transliteration’
With this advance tool now users can convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in their own language. Google has introduced this for a single Indian language and will soon come up with improving quality and working on adding more languages and new features.
The improved version of Google Transliteration, is available in Google Labs or at http://www.google.com/transliterate.
In this new version users can choose from one of seventeen supported languages: Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi,Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
The tool allows the users to compose richly formatted text and look up word definitions with Google dictionary integration. If the default transliteration is not the word which user is looking for, the users can highlight it to see a list of alternatives. For even finer-grained control, Google provide a unicode character picker to allow character-by-character composition.
Google Transliteration is integrated into several Google properties and Google have an API and bookmark lets to extend this capability to other websites.
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