Google Adds English to Hindi Transliterator in Blogger Editor
An exciting development for bloggers in India who like to blog in mother tongue Hindi but are more comfortable typing English. The new English-Hindi transliteration feature inside Blogger will let you type blog posts in Hindi using English Keyboards.
To use Transliteration feature, go to the Settings | Basics page and select "Yes" for the transliteration option. Now open the Blogger Editor, switch to the compose tab and click the "Write Hindi" button. (see screenshot)
As you type Roman (English) alphabets in the editor, these words are automatically converted to Hindi. It is also possible to compose your blog post in multiple languages - use the shortcut key Ctrl+G to toggle the transliteration feature on and off.
Blogger's English-to-Hindi Transliterator feature is pretty solid and may erode some market share of other similar apps like Hindi Kalam and Quillpad.
There's an on-screen Hindi Keyboard for writing characters that are difficult to type using English alphabets. And just like Spell Check feature, you can select an Hindi word and Blogger will just a list of possible alternatives.
It seems like a good percentage of Blogger users are from India. They should probably extend this to other popular languages like Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada.
Blogger Support | Hindi-English Mapping Chart [Thanks Pete]
Related: Professional Blogging in Hindi
To use Transliteration feature, go to the Settings | Basics page and select "Yes" for the transliteration option. Now open the Blogger Editor, switch to the compose tab and click the "Write Hindi" button. (see screenshot)
As you type Roman (English) alphabets in the editor, these words are automatically converted to Hindi. It is also possible to compose your blog post in multiple languages - use the shortcut key Ctrl+G to toggle the transliteration feature on and off.
Blogger's English-to-Hindi Transliterator feature is pretty solid and may erode some market share of other similar apps like Hindi Kalam and Quillpad.
There's an on-screen Hindi Keyboard for writing characters that are difficult to type using English alphabets. And just like Spell Check feature, you can select an Hindi word and Blogger will just a list of possible alternatives.
It seems like a good percentage of Blogger users are from India. They should probably extend this to other popular languages like Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada.
Blogger Support | Hindi-English Mapping Chart [Thanks Pete]
Related: Professional Blogging in Hindi
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Excellent News. But they should add hindi to Google translate. This has been a long waited service.
ये बेहद अच्छी खबर है। यदि इसमे अन्य भारतीय भाषाएँ भी आ जाए तो और मजेदार हो जायगा।
(This is great news. If other Indian languages are added too, it will be even more exciting)
और अगर गूगल एडसेंस में भी हिन्दी आ जाये तो वारे न्यारे हो जायें :)
The transliteration tool seems pretty good, it was for the first time I saw my name converted to correct Devanaagarii equivalent without making any effort to type my naame in any special way like "debaasheesh" or something.
The only drawback is that the transliterated text is fetched from their servers which means that you cannot use it offline.
वाकई मे यह एक बढिया खबर है , अगर अमित मै पिछ्ले साल से इस साल तुलना करूं तो मुझे हिन्दी ब्लागिगं मे आशचर्य जनक रूप से परिवर्तन दिख रहे हैं, जहां पिछ्ले साल तक हिन्दी लिखने के टूल्स गिने चुने थे , वहीं अब गूगल और अन्य साईट हिन्दी की व्यवाहिरकता को समझ रहे हैं.
This is good news for Indian bloggers, is their any way to convert your old posts in to hindi and also to see other posts or blogs written in other languages converted to hindi language.
I didn't know about this ! it's great!
Marvellously created. I was looking for this mechanism since long. I am a retired officer of 74 and actually needed this service because I am expert in english typing but not in Hindi, This handicap is now over.
Thanks a lot.
R.P.Asthana
Gwalior
very nice service by amit bhai...
much awaited.
-vishal ratra, Bangalore
kya baat hai. google agar aisa karta hai to bahut hee parivartah aa jayega internet kee duniya mai.
This is great news. If other Indian languages are added too, it will be even more exciting
और अगर गूगल एडसेंस में भी हिन्दी आ जाये तो वारे न्यारे हो जायें
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