Sunday, August 24, 2008

‘Quillpad’ : E-mail, in your own language

Bangalore: E-mail can now be sent in ten different Indian languages without having to use cumbersome language software...  

Invented by Tachyon Technologies, ‘Quillpad’, a free online multi-lingual typing tool for emails is a software which enables people to communicate in regional languages. Quillpad is a predictive transliteration technology which allows users to type in Indian languages in English without using any rules like earlier technologies which depended on pre-defined conditions.  

Quillpad is already supporting 10 Indian Languages and one foreign language - Nepali. This software can support any language without human intervention within five to six hours of time. 

Ramprakash H, CEO, Tachyon Technologies and creator of Quillpad said, “The programme developed on a mathematical technique. It automatically predicts ambiguities that arise while using Roman letters to type in Indian languages. It uses automated machine learning techniques to learn new languages”.

The user will just have to type any regional language word using the English keyboard without having to worry about the phonetics. The software can be used to communicate in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi and in Nepali.

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