We celebrate linguistic diversity, but technology is not available in local languages – Firstpost
8 years, 7 months ago

We celebrate linguistic diversity, but technology is not available in local languages – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Every Indian has a right to high speed broadband internet. Kiosks, ATMs, ticketing machines and vending machines in local languages will help in an increase in number of people using these services. Keyboards, software, search engines, mobile operating systems, all of these are more useful to people in local languages, if the latest technology tools and services are to be made available to those who are now under-served. Maybe even an India specific mobile operating system with support for all the local regional languages is needed to help in increasing broadband penetration. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology recently held a meeting with representatives of Google, Microsoft and Rediff in an effort to get technology corporations to support email addresses in local languages.

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Indian AI model’s local language viability faces content availability barrier
1 month, 1 week ago

Indian AI model’s local language viability faces content availability barrier

The Hindu  

A key goal of Indian startups and the IndiaAI Mission has been to create a foundational large language model that is tuned to Indian languages. That has so far been a tall order, as the amount of Indian language content online — a key source of training data in English, which is what most foundational models like OpenAI and Google’s …

Empowering India's next generation: How local AI fuels India's innovation engine
1 month, 1 week ago

Empowering India's next generation: How local AI fuels India's innovation engine

India Today  

In a country of over a billion people, fewer than 10% are fluent in English, and yet, English dominates our engineering and technical resources, sidelining the majority of India’s population from meaningful participation in our own technology revolution. Imagine an innovator, deeply rooted in her local community, with solutions to her region’s specific challenges but held back by a lack …

Google For India Announce New Search Feature to give users access to web pages in Indian Local Languages
3 years, 4 months ago

Google For India Announce New Search Feature to give users access to web pages in Indian Local Languages

ABP News  

New Delhi: In a bid to extend the benefits of the country's growing digital economy to more people, Google India on Thursday announced a slew of new product features and partnerships at the seventh edition of Google For India event. The search engine giant announced vaccination booking, local language and voice support in Search and its digital payments platform, Google …

Our digital payment systems can transform the creative economy
4 years, 3 months ago

Our digital payment systems can transform the creative economy

Live Mint  

The internet is on the cusp of one of the biggest changes in its short history—frictionless and ubiquitous micropayments. India too has all the building blocks necessary for a similar evolution—huge demand for local-language content, wide adoption of mobile payments, and massive social followings of internet stars. On the old internet, Indian language creators face a double whammy—they’re unable to …

Vernacular language software need tech boost to bring more users on board
5 years, 4 months ago

Vernacular language software need tech boost to bring more users on board

Business Standard  

Vernacular language software need tech boost to bring more users on board There are concerns that little or no standardisation has taken place to ease access for new-to-internet and vernacular users, and digital platforms continue to rely on made-for-English user formats Premium Representative Image Romita Majumdar Mumbai Initiatives like Digital India have provided technology platforms with a great incentive to …

New mobile apps ride high on vernacular languages
6 years, 2 months ago

New mobile apps ride high on vernacular languages

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Did you know that TikTok was one of the most-downloaded mobile apps for Apple and Android devices in 2018—dethroning established names like YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat? It is just one of the many new social media apps—Indian and Chinese—that have become popular across tier II and III towns across India spurred by rising disposable income, reduced mobile data …

Domain names to soon be available in Hindi, Bengali and other regional languages
6 years, 7 months ago

Domain names to soon be available in Hindi, Bengali and other regional languages

Firstpost  

Getting an Internet domain name in English is passé, now get ready to have it in regional languages. ICANN has been working towards building the rules for secure and stable definition of the top-level domains for scripts used globally so that people with no knowledge of English are able to go online and access the websites with the domain names …

Google unveils Tamil language support for AdWords, AdSense
7 years, 1 month ago

Google unveils Tamil language support for AdWords, AdSense

The Hindu  

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Tamil language support for its advertising products — Google AdWords and Google AdSense. The Internet giant said these products would support the Tamil language web publishers and also help advertisers to reach out to the large base of Internet users in Tamil. With this launch, Google has now scaled support for Indian language …

Google India announces support of Bengali language for AdWords and AdSense
7 years, 5 months ago

Google India announces support of Bengali language for AdWords and AdSense

Firstpost  

Google India on Wednesday announced support of the Bengali language for Google AdWords and Google AdSense. In a bid to help advertisers create relevant content in regional languages in India, Google India on Wednesday announced support of the Bengali language for Google AdWords and Google AdSense. “With the availability of Hindi and today’s launch of Bengali language capabilities, we are …

Tamil, Gujarati online dictionaries launched by Oxford Dictionaries
7 years, 7 months ago

Tamil, Gujarati online dictionaries launched by Oxford Dictionaries

New Indian Express  

For the first time, large quantities of quality lexical information for a huge range of languages will be systematically created, collected, and made available, in a single linked repository, to speakers, learners, and developers. “OGL is a bold initiative from Oxford University Press for a modern challenge and a huge opportunity” explained Judy Pearsall, Director for Oxford Dictionaries. Yet with …

All phones to have one regional language by 2017; original content is the need of the hour
8 years, 5 months ago

All phones to have one regional language by 2017; original content is the need of the hour

Firstpost  

This year in India, more feature phone units were shipped to consumers than smartphones, despite analyst expectations that 2016 would finally be the year smartphone sales would exceed those of feature phones. One of the best efforts at making smartphone technologies available in local regional languages is Indus OS. So we have been thinking about how to build products and …

Online content in Indian languages low, says expert
10 years, 2 months ago

Online content in Indian languages low, says expert

India TV News  

Kolkata: Online content in Indian languages in the areas of entertainment, e-shopping and local services is significantly low in comparison to content in English, a programming expert said here Friday. According to M. Krishna Doss, senior program manager, Microsoft India, there is a shortage of original content in Indic languages which form the dominant linguistic family of the Indian subcontinent. …

Efforts on to develop all official languages: Rajnath Singh
10 years, 8 months ago

Efforts on to develop all official languages: Rajnath Singh

India TV News  

New Delhi: All efforts will be made to encourage national language and the government directs various departments from time to time to enhance use of Hindi, the Lok Sabha was informed today. Home Minister Rajnath Singh said there is no reason for the government not to encourage the use of Hindi in official work and it is making efforts to …

Microsoft in language computing
14 years, 8 months ago

Microsoft in language computing

The Hindu  

Microsoft India joins the World Classical Tamil Conference by sending its representatives to the seminar and participating exhibition. A release says the company’s spokespersons Kumaran and Michael Kaplan will present papers on the origin of Tamil Unicode and importance of language computing. The release says Microsoft India has been working on language computing in India since 1998 and has a …

Write in English, read in Hindi
15 years, 4 months ago

Write in English, read in Hindi

The Hindu  

If you are to spy on the thousands of messages darting across Indian mobile networks at any given point of time, you may find some interesting linguistic patterns. Quillpad's web avatar, which preceded Google's now popular transliteration tools by a year, registered no less than 1.16 lakh unique users in September. For starters, Quillpad's predictive engine is far more intuitive, …

Where computers are truly 'personal'
23 years, 2 months ago

Where computers are truly 'personal'

The Hindu  

India's expertise in Information Technology has quietly matured enough to create products that suit the needs of its people, something that international 'shrink wrapped' solutions can never hope to do. It is possibly the first hand-held computer to work off three standard AAA-sized penlight cells and to forsake proprietary, "shrink wrapped" software such as Windows in favour of the free …

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