Thursday, December 17, 2009

Google Updates Transliteration Tools

Mountain View-based Google is continuing to expands it suite of language translation tools, saying Thursday that it has updated its Google Transliteration service, which converts Roman characters to the phonetic equivalent in different languages. The firm said the new service now supports seventeen languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. The feature was originally built to support the firm's users in India.