Using Google Transliteration you can convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note that this is not the same as translation — it's the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as:
, typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as:
and typing "spasibo" transliterates into Russian as
. Since our initial launch for a single Indian language, we've been hard at work on improving quality, adding more languages and new features.
In this new version, you can select from one of seventeen supported languages:
Arabic,
Bengali,
Greek,
Gujarati,
Hindi,
Kannada,
Malayalam,
Marathi,
Nepali,
Persian,
Punjabi,
Russian,
Sanskrit,
Serbian,
Tamil,
Telugu and
Urdu. You can also compose richly formatted text and look up word definitions with our dictionary integration. If the default transliteration is not the word you wanted, you can highlight it to see a list of alternatives. For even finer-grained control, we provide a
unicode character picker to allow character-by-character composition.
Google Transliteration is integrated into
several Google properties and we have an
API and
bookmarklets to extend this capability to other websites. A solution we initially built to solve a problem we saw here in India is now being used in many other parts of the world as well - one small example of the scale and leverage that technology can bring in today's increasingly globalized environment. As with all labs products, we will continue to improve the technology and try out new features. We would love to hear from you, so do
let us know what you think.
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