In 2018, Google rounded up their offerings for Tamil by introducing Google Adsense. Then in 2017 came the most anticipated feature of voice typing in Tamil in Google Search and the Gboard keyboard app. It was followed in 2014 when Google added handwriting recognition for Tamil in their Google Translate app. Then in 2011 Google brought out fine translation capabilities for Tamil. Then for almost a decade, there was a long winter with occasional releases like UI support. If inventing these technologies in a research lab is one thing, getting it in the hands of users can happen only when the technology giants like Google, Microsoft or Apple bundle it in their products – in 2019 it is imperative these appear in Android Smartphone and iPhone, which are used by several billion people around the world.Īmong mainstream vendors, Microsoft was the first to introduce Indian language support starting with Windows 2000. Įven when the support for local languages is in the devices, how effectively are they being used? That’s a discussion that I have written in detail in 2018. Partnering with institutions around the world, INFITT members have been working on this and had presented many technical papers on the subject in its annual conferences like with TI2010, when Unicode got Tamil Nadu Government’s approval. For more than two decades, having computer translation, voice recognition and handwriting recognition in their mother tongue(s) has been a dream for many of the Indian language speakers including Tamilians.
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