On several posts I wrote about Google Transliteration. First they introduced it to Hindi then later other Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada also supported. Few months later they started to support more scripts such as Arab, Hebrew etc. Today I found something interesting. Yeah now Google Transliterate supports Sinhalese too. Basically […]
Text to Speech Engine for Tamil
Text to speech is a wonderful tool when it comes to accessibility issues. For a long time we had Text to speech in English and other European Languages but not for Tamil. Today I come to know that there is a tool is being developed at MILE Lab’s. Now tool is still beta but it […]
Google Chrome is Now Available in Tamil
Good news for Tamil computer users. Google has released their Chrome browser with Tamil interface. Yipee!It’s available in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista alone), Tamil, and Telugu. A Hindi version was available earlier. Eearlier we had Firefox 2.X with Tamil Interface. It was localised by Thamizha community. Later, Firefox came up […]
Tamil Spell Checker for Firefox
Good news for Tamil Firefox users. A new version of Tamil Spell checker is available in Firefox. More than 50,000 words have been included with the help of Tamil Wikipedia. I’ve been using it and its comparatively doing a good job but we need to have some decision machine attached to this spell checker to […]
Windows Live Messenger in Tamil
I went to download live messenger to chat with my friends and found out the Live messenger is available in Tamil too. You can select Tamil as language in right hand side drop down list and download it from Live messenger site. Along with Live messenger, other programs such as mail, writer also coming in […]
Facebook in Tamil
Good news for Tamil Facebook fans. Today I found that Tamil interface is available for Facebook. Translations are done as facebook users. If you wish you can also contribute to the volunteer translations. If your language is not available in the home page then you can check for your language in translations. Around 50% of […]
Google’s Voice Recognition in Hindi & Telugu
Now Google is offering Voice Search in Hindi and Telugu. According to Google it’s a pilot service and they are working on it to improve. It is Google’s new experimental service making local business information, movie show times and real time flight status available from any phone for free. You get fast access to the […]
Now Gmail in Tamil & Other Indian Languages
At last Google has given long awaited Tamil Interface for Gmail. Whole interface is now given in Tamil and some dominant Indian regional languages (اردو (Urdu) , मराठी (Marathi), हिन्दी (Hindi), বাংলা (Bangla), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), ଓଡିଆ (Oriya), தமிழ் (Tamil), తెలుగు (Telugu), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) and മലയാളം (Malayalam). I think this combination would cover nearly whole Indian […]
Blogger allows you to type directly in Tamil
Blogger has integrated its transliteration facilities to Blogger, so Tamils can directly input in Blogger window. Along with Tamil other Indian languages also included. Follow the steps to activate! Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
Tamil interface for WordPress
I have happy news to all our Tamil bloggers. Today WordPress has given Tamil interface for its site. Last 5 days nearly 20 of our translators translated nearly 3000 strings as volunteers. It