Indic computing

It involves developing software in Indic Scripts/languages, Input methods, Localization of computer applications, web development, Database Management, Spell checkers, Speech to Text and Text to Speech applications and OCR in Indian languages.

The 9 scripts are Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.

Indian Union Government made it mandatory for Mobile phone companies whose handsets manufactured, stored, sold and distributed in India to have support for displaying and typing text using fonts for all 22 languages.

In 2005, it started distributing language software tools developed by Government/Academic/Private companies in the form of CD for non commercial use.

This Centre disseminate all the linguistic resources, tools & applications which have been developed under TDIL funding.

Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River Valley Technologies.

A number of methods exist for this purpose, but the main ones are:- Inscript is the standard keyboard for Indian languages.

Nowadays it comes inbuilt in all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7), Linux and Macintosh.

This type of conversion is done by phonetic text editors, word processors and software plugins.

A research study[8] of the available methods and recommendations of proposed standard was released by Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI).

Indic input methods are yet to evolve for these types of phones, as support of Unicode for rendering is not widely available.

For Android phones which can render Indic languages, Swalekh Multilingual Keypad[12] Multiling Keyboard app[13][14] are available.

IndLinux is a volunteer group aiming to translate the Linux operating system into Indian languages.

GoDaddy has localised its website in Hindi, Marathi and Tamil and also noted that 40% of the call volume for IVR is in Indian Languages.

[20] Google offers improved translation feature for Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada,[15] with offline support as well.

[23] Amazon's Alexa has support for Hindi and recognises major Indian languages partially.

According to GoDaddy, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil languages accounted for 61% of India's internet traffic.

[26] A recent study revealed that adoption of Internet is highest among local languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Malayalam.

It estimates that Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, and Telugu will form 30% of the total local-language user base in the country.

[27] Intex also reported that 87% of its regional language usage came from Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi speakers.