Transliteration goes global
Most of us use a keyboard to enter text; it’s one of the most basic activities we perform on a computer. However even this simple activity can be cumbersome in many parts of the world. If you’ve ever tried to type in a non-Roman script using a Roman keyboard, you know that it can be difficult to do. Many of us at Google’s Bangalore office experienced this problem firsthand. Roman keyboards are the norm in India, making it difficult to type in Indian languages. We decided to tackle this problem by making it very easy to type phonetically using Roman characters and we launched this service as Google Transliteration.
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.
