Google Transliteration

Transliterate Any Web Page With Google Script Converter

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Google India has announced an online Script Converter tool to transliterate text into 17 languages.This comes after Google’s initiative to provide Google Transliteration IME in 14 languages.

Google Script Converter tool, a Google labs feature will convert any given web page or piece of text given as input from one language script to another meaning that it will just transliterate it but will not translate.

This tool will be useful if you know how to speak a language but can’t read it.Say for instance you can speak and understand Hindi, but you can’t read it.So you would rather like to read the script in a language which you can read to understand it.You know what it means when you say नमस्कार but you can’t read it in Hindi.So what will you do? Go to Script Converter, type the text in Hindi to transliterate it to an easily readable English script, the output would be namaskar.

google script converter

Screenshot: A Techrena post transliterated to Hindi and Telugu.

google script converter web page screenshot

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The question is who needs this tool? Yeah, all of tech freaks like us who on constantly use gadgets like mobiles, iPod, iPad, internet every thing in English and who have almost forgotten the native Indic script.

List of supported languages (17):

Bengali,
English,
Greek,
Gujarati,
Hindi,
Kannada,
Malayalam,
Marathi,
Nepali,
Persian,
Punjabi,
Russian,
Sanskrit,
Serbian,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Urdu.

Google Transliteration IME In 14 Languages (Exclusively For Indian Languages)

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Now you can easily type text in your own language in a more simpler fashion using Google Transliteration IME (IME- Input Method Editor).Google has officially launched the Google Transliteration IME in fourteen (14) languages, most of which are Indian languages.

[See the complete list of supported/available languages at the bottom of this post]

From now on, you don’t need softwares like Baraha, Lekhini or Aksharamala to type in your language.

With Google Transliteration IME, the user needs to download a very small piece of software for any if the 14 available languages and this opens up a the language tool bar for the desired language.Great thing about this is that you just need to type letters in English and it’ll automatically translates (or suggests translation) into your preferred language.

You can select the input language from the language tool bar as shown in the screenshot below:

Selecting Telugu from Language Toolbar

Now open any application (ex. notepad) and type in English and you can see the word being translated to your selected language or showing list of possible words with your input.

[Here I have used Telugu as the input language, by downloading Google Transliteration IME for Telugu]

Google Transliteration IME Telugu input Techrena

The same procedure can be followed  for other languages too.

IME edit in Hindi screenshot

[Sorry folks, I know only Hindi and Telugu other than English 🙁 ]

Download Google IME (For Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 , 32-bit only)

Supported Languages:

Arabic,

Bengali,

Farsi (Persian),

Greek,

Gujarati,

Hindi,

Kannada,

Malayalam,

Marathi,

Nepali,

Punjabi,

Tamil,

Telugu,

Urdu

You can also use bookmarklet to directly type in your language in your web browser, which I’ll cover in a later post.For now, you can read about Transliteration feature in Gmail.