Most of us are really fond of Google transliteration service, which also incorporated in their popular services like Gmail and Blogger to compose mails and blogs in our own languages.[See Google Transliteration]

As we all know, we can add the text input support for as many languages from the regional settings menu of Windows (you can see this in the control panel)

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Even if you can add the language support, in fact they’re not get going well with a transliteration manner. If you type something, Malayalam it should appear as മലയാളം. unfortunately Windows badly fails to do that.

If you’ve really enjoyed the Google transliteration service, they’re ready to provide the same text service as offline service through IME. No more copy paste from transliteration IME page your window.

Navigate to http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration/ and select your preferred language, finish download and install it.

Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 14 different languages – Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

Google Boasts it has

  • Offline Support – No dependency with internet connection
  • Easy Keyboard – Dictionary enabled keyboard to enter rare and complex words
  • Word Completions – Dictionary based word completions for prefixes.
  • Quick Search(you should expect this from Google) – Single click web search for highlighted word.
  • Personalized Choices – Remember user corrections for personalized service.
  • Customize suggestions page size, display font

More features can be found in this page

Okay here’s a simple and quick demonstration in my mother tongue.

1. Enable the language bar ( if it’s not enabled )

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2. Select the language from language bar. You can see the Google Transliteration service on the right bottom of the screen (by default)

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Note that This is a per Window Settings (like the normal IME operation). i.e if you’ve two notepads running and you selected Malayalam for one of them, the other will not be affected by this settings.

3. Now start typing

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Now you’ve the basic education on transliteration services (if you’re a newbie). Now go ahead explore more. Chat, mail, or anything in your local language. Thanks Google for taking care of our mother tongue!!!