Google transliteration is a transliteration typing service for Indian languages.

This tool first appeared in Blogger

Blogger (service)

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, Google's popular blogging servicehttp://blogger.com/hindi. Later on it came into existence as a separate online tool. Keeping in view its popularity it was embedded in GMail

Gmail

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 and Orkut

Orkut

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. In December 2009 Google released its offline version named Google IME

Google IME

Google IME is a set of typing tools by Google for 22 languages, including Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Urdu...

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This tool from Google is based on dictionary based phonetic transliteration approach. In contrast to older Indic typing tools (which type by transliterating under a particular scheme), it transliterates by matching the Latin words with an inbuilt dictionary. So, users do not need to remember the transliteration scheme due to which this service is very easy and suitable for first time typists or beginners which are used to Romanagari

Romanagari

Romanagari, a portmanteau of the words "Roman" and "Devanagari", is a slang word coined by bloggers. It refers to Hindi text written or typed in Roman script, as opposed to the standard Devanagari script. A possible reason for this is that Hindi-speaking computer users may lack tools necessary for...

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For transliteration between scripts, there is a separate service named Google Script Converter

Google Script Converter

Google Script Converter is an online transliteration tool for transliteration between Hindi, Romanagari and various other scripts. This tool was started in November 2009....

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See also

• Google IME
  Google IME
  Google IME is a set of typing tools by Google for 22 languages, including Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Urdu...
  
  
• Google Script Converter
  Google Script Converter
  Google Script Converter is an online transliteration tool for transliteration between Hindi, Romanagari and various other scripts. This tool was started in November 2009....
  
  
• Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool
  Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool
  Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool is a typing tool for Hindi and other Indic languages. It is a virtual keyboard which allows to type Indic language text directly in any application without hassle of copying and pasting. It is available for both, online and offline use...
  
  
• QuillPad
  QuillPad
  QuillPad is a transliteration technology to phonetically type Hindi and other Indic language text. This was the first typing tool with artificial intelligence to use dictionary based phonetic transliteration. Later on, Google and Microsoft came with such kind of typing tools. Quillpad uses machine...
  
  
• Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic

External links

• Google transliteration (Online Editor)
• Google Transliteration IME (Offline IME)
• Google Transliteration - Firefox Addon