{"id":63,"date":"2007-08-22T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-08-22T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T08:07:00","slug":"transliteration-googles-gift-to-india-on-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/transliteration-googles-gift-to-india-on-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Transliteration &#8211; Google&#039;s gift to India on Independence day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some over enthused software engineers at Google India pre-announced <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/namaste-india.html\" target=\"_blank\">gifts<\/a> on the eve of India&#8217;s 60th Independence day. <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/google-labs-india.html\" target=\"_blank\">Turns out<\/a> its a facility to search the web in some Indian languages and an online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/transliterate\/indic\/\" target=\"_blank\">transliteration tool<\/a>. Big deal! The transliteration facility was enabled in <a href=\"http:\/\/help.blogger.com\/bin\/answer.py?answer=58226\" target=\"_blank\">Blogger<\/a> way <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/now-you-can-blog-in-hindi.html\" target=\"_blank\">back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I already know a few others who have worked on it way longer and have already released full fledged products. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/acharya.iitm.ac.in\/rkk.php\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Kalyana Krishnan<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iitm.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">IITM <\/a>has been working on this problem (medium of interaction) for ages. You can read more about the various software he developed on his <a href=\"http:\/\/acharya.iitm.ac.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/quillpad.in\/hindi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quill pad<\/a> made by two of his students (<a href=\"http:\/\/tachyon.in\/people.html\" target=\"_blank\">KS and Rampi<\/a>) has been available for quite some time now and is already integrated with Rediff mail and Bol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some over enthused software engineers at Google India pre-announced gifts on the eve of India&#8217;s 60th Independence day. Turns out its a facility to search the web in some Indian languages and an online transliteration tool. Big deal! The transliteration facility was enabled in Blogger way back. Plus, I already know a few others who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}