If you are an Orkut user you probably know what I am going to talk about here. I am speaking about Transliteration, which essentially means that you can type in one language and have that converted to another language.
Google already offers transliteration in Orkut and many users know about it. However did you know that you can now chat in Indian languages in Gmail and Google Talk Labs Edition also?
Follow these steps to chat in Indian languages (currently 5 are supported) in Google Talk.
- Add a transliteration bot to your friend list. There are 5 of them available currently: (en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi, en2kn.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Kannada, en2te.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Telugu, en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Tamil and en2ml.translit@bot.talk.google.com for Malayalam)
- Start chatting with your friend.
- Convert the chat session to a group chat and invite the particular bot (you added in step 1) to the group chat.
From now on whatever you type in english will be converted to the appropriate language by the bot. Have a look:
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You might have to enable Indic fonts if you dont see them correctly. Here is some more information on Indic Fonts
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There is another way which may be better in some ways. Install baraha from http://www.baraha.com and run baraha direct. Select a unicode font (hindi, for example). You can now type in gmail and it will transliterate like above. You can shift to english and back with F11 so you can mix english words if you want.
Baraha also lets you type in word or excel.
Hi,
You can try this firefox addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8731 . It works in most sites.
Sridhar
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