QuillPad is a transliteration technology to phonetically type Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 and other Indic language text. This was the first typing tool with artificial intelligence to use dictionary based phonetic transliteration. Later on, Google

Google

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 and Microsoft

Microsoft

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 came with such kind of typing tools. Quillpad uses machine learning techniques to learn language patterns. Hence it is not the same as dictionary based approaches. It can correctly transliterate even those words that it has not been trained on. Quillpad uses a generic transliteration approach which enables it to be extended to any alphabet based language in the world.

QuillPad has released a version for mobile phone

Mobile phone

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 too, named QuillPad Mobile with help of which Indic

Indic

Indic can refer to:* Indo-Aryan languages* Indic scripts* Related to the Indian Subcontinent* of or related to India ; see Indica...

text can be typed using the mobile phone's standard English keypad. It doesn't require Indian language keypad.

Tachyon Technologies is the company behind Quillpad. It was founded by IIT Madras graduates Ram Prakash H and Sreeram KS in 2000, straight out of college.

Features

• Supports all major Indian languages.
• Its keyboard is partially based on transliteration and at the same time intelligent too.
• Can be used to type 'rich text'.
• Transliterates most English words correctly, even if the spelling entered is not phonetic.
• Works on the web, desktop and mobile platforms.