Saturday, January 30, 2010

Google IME for Indian Languages ...

Using indian languages on a computer had never been so easy. I mean you can type directly in hindi in any windows application - notepad or word or web browser. Thanks to the google transliteration IME. You really don't need to remember the hindi key sequence (which is the case when you use window's native IME support. You can just type in the roman characters and it converts them into your native language (the same thing that happens in Gmail or in other google application. There is a free software called "Baraha" which does the same thing. I have been using this software for quite some time and I found it useful. However, its integration with other windows application is not that good.

After saying all this, I suggest you to download google transliteration IME tool from this link and see for yourself.


Also go through the installation instruction ....

Here is a screenshot of how it looks on my computer. I advise you to enable the short-cut key for enabling and disabling google IME. The google IME icon is sitting at the bottom right corner of the screen.

In fact, I can write directly in Hindi here ... for instance ... क्या आप हिंदी देख सकते हैं ? यह बहुत अच्छा है.

6 comments:

सी. रा. वाळके said...

But do you know hoe to install it on Ubuntu? If yes please let me know.

Hemal Vadgama said...

so whats this got to do with linux?

সুরজিৎ ভক্ত (Surajit) said...

anyone know about using this IME on UBUNTU or anything like this on UBUNTU...??
Or is there any provision of typing this asian languages(specially bengali) in UBUNTU...???
if anyone know, pls reply....

Unknown said...

You can use scim in linux/ubuntu.
It supports all Indian languages

RavinderSanjay said...

HOW to install this IME for LINUX
please tell me

Gaurang_Arora said...

It is not possible to install Google IME in Linux. what you can instead do is use Hindi iTrans in ibus-m17n libraries and activate it in input sources.