Hindi me Bolo !!!!

Google Indian labs ( The Google labs are where Google tries out its experimental services) have released two services for us Indian crowd.

The two Indian services available at this time are an Indic keyboard as iGoogle gadget to “compose search queries in any of [the several] Indian languages”, as well as an an Indic transliteration page. Enter any English word on the translation page and hit space to see it immediately be changed to Indic; the word “google" for instance turns to “गूगल”, the Devanāgarī characters used in Hindi. Once typed, you can click a word to edit it based on a number of suggestions offered, or by typing into a special on-screen keyboard.

The Indic Keyourd gadget is probably for someone who really knows Hindi. The Instant Indic translation box is more for some one like me. You type in English and it translates it to Hindi. Below is a translation of one of Krish's post from the Google groups.

Krish in English:

Abhi tum hamaar gana suna ka babua. Jab hum gaiyo toh tumara toh bhoot bhaag
jaai. Ho haa, hum tanpura/kanpura/tambura aur Dhant taal bhi suna denge.
Hum Nadro niwasi hai. nandi ke hani babua.

It translated:

अभी तुम हमार गण सुना का बबुआ. जब हम गैयो तोह तुमार तोह भूत भाग
जाई. हो हां, हम तन्पुरा/कानपुर/तम्बूरा और दंत ताल भी सुना देंगे.
हम नद्रो निवासी है. नंदी के हनी बबुआ.

The Indic keyboard gadget

The instant Indic transliterations box

Apperently the services have a few bugs at the moment.

<<Oriya font rendering seems to be broken under IE. Firefox does not seem to support Oriya at all. Bengali (and Assamese) fonts are often too tiny and seem to be placed a few pixels lower than required. Many browsers do not render some of the Malayalam chillus and conjuncts correctly.>>