Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Google Adds Hindi to Its Translate List

Google, focusing on the large Hindi speaking population in India, has announced the launch of Google Translate in Hindi. This new feature will allow automated translation between English and Hindi text.

According to the company, users who want to translate some text, a web page, or issue a query in Hindi and have results translated from English, can do it on http://www.google.com/translate_t. With Google Translate, users can type in Hindi using a regular keyboard. A user will only require typing the word as it sounds.

With the help of this application, Hindi users can also add iGoogle gadget to their homepage. Not only Hindi, but also other regional languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam may also be used easily on the net.

Prior to this, Google had looked in to capturing the Chinese market and was ready to bend its some of well established principles. Last year Google had launched an India serving innovation platform, Google India Labs, and two India facing products- Google Local Search and Google Local Business Centre. The announcement is further evidence of the global search giant's commitment to providing locally relevant information and opportunities for its Indian users.