Language is not a barrier

Photograph from the Internet To type in Bengali, Hindi or Nepali, you don’t need to be a scholar By Mathures Paul In a few years time, you don’t need to know English to be on the web. Every major IT company is spending large amounts to develop interfaces in various languages. Using artificial intelligence structure most of these interfaces are being developed. A leader in the area is Tachyon Technologies and its Quillpad. You don’t need to know how to write Bengali or Hindi or Nepali or Punjabi to use Quillpad. On www.quillpad.in simply choose a language you want the text matter to be in and start typing in English. To be more specific, users spell out words of local languages phonetically in Roman letters, and Quillpad’s predictive engine converts them into other scripts. If you are unsure of the pronunciation of a word, simply right click and a list of alternatives is provided. Launched in 2000, it took KS Sreeram and Ram Prakash almost four years of planning and visualizing various ...