Google’s Voice Recognition in Hindi & Telugu

September 8, 2008 · Filed Under Google, India, Localisation, Tech · Comment 

Google Phone search Now Google is offering Voice Search in Hindi and Telugu. According to Google it’s a pilot service and they are working on it to improve.

It is Google’s new experimental service making local business information, movie show times and real time flight status available from any phone for free. You get fast access to the same information you would find on Google.com and Google Local Search when you are on the go, anytime, for free.
It is free. 1-800-41-999-999 is a toll free number and it does not cost you anything. Google doesn’t charge you for the information. The service may not be available from payphones, but is available from any mobile phone and land-line in Hyderabad and Delhi.

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Tamil Interface for Blogger

August 23, 2008 · Filed Under Blogs, Google, Tamil, Tech · Comment 

Blogger Tamil Interface

Blogger is one of the most popular blog portal owned by the internet giant Google. As per Google’s initiation to provide their products in local languages, they have taken steps to give Tamil interface for Blogger.

Currently you can check out the Tamil interface in Blogger Draft. A translation seems ok.

So far we have Good number of Tamil interfaces from Google including Orkut, Gmail, Main Search Site, Google News and Google Docs. Soon Blogger.com will also join with this queue.

PS: Tamil Interface for WordPress is already available.

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Tamil Movies Online

June 18, 2008 · Filed Under Entertainment, Link List, Movies, Tamil · Comment 

Early days I hardly see a site to download Tamil movies, but today there are enough sites offering Tamil movie downloads. Just like music pirate (in MP3 format), Tamil movie pirate also very hot in the internet these days.

As number of Internet users in Tamil Nadu, India grows, the number of Tamil pirate movie sites also growing to cater the market demand… ;) Read more

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Automated Online Hindi Translator

May 4, 2008 · Filed Under Google, Tutorials · Comment 

Now you can translate Hindi sites into English and also Hindi speakers can translate English sites into Hindi. As far as I know this is the first initiative for an Indian Language translation.

I translated BBC Hindi site into English using this translator tool, seems ok. I have translated some Chinese pages but those things usually return some garbage. Read more

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Jackie Chan came to Chennai, India

May 1, 2008 · Filed Under Entertainment, Hollywood, Movies · 3 Comments 

Chan in his Hollywood breakthrough film Rumble in the Bronx.Image via Wikipedia

Recently Jackie Chan came to Chennai, Tamil Nadu for the audio release of the movie Dasavatharam. I was watching the programe in Isai Aruvi TV. He was very humble and nice. I’m sure he was lost, because he can’t understand a word in the program as it was conducted in Tamil Language. Read more

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Dasavatharam (2008)

April 25, 2008 · Filed Under Entertainment, India, Movies · 2 Comments 

Dasavatharam is a forthcoming Tamil feature film currently being directed by K. S. Ravikumar, who with Dasavatharam, pairs up with Kamal Haasan for the fourth time. Haasan acts in ten different roles, breaking the record for an actor’s portrayal of the most different characters whilst Asin Thottumkal in a dual role and Mallika Sherawat also play lead roles in the film. The film, which has been under production since mid-2005, has Himesh Reshammiya as the music composer and Oscar Ravichandran as the main producer. The film, made with a budget of 80 crore Indian rupees, is set to be released in the summer of 2008.

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Sri Lanka & India relationship – A Political Drama

April 11, 2008 · Filed Under Entertainment · 3 Comments 
Sri Lanka, Colombo, Galle Face GreenImage via Wikipedia

Today Sri Lanka is a country devastated by the bloody war, ravaged to scratch. People are suffering from hunger and war. No politicians seem to take action to prevent these burning issues. The country used to be the peal of Indian Ocean, now its garbage tin of Indian Ocean.

Almost 3 decades back, India was a friendly neighbor for LTTE. Today things have changed a lot. Even though many people in South Indian state Tami Nadu support for LTTE, Central government is not so keen on developing a relationship with LTTE. Read more

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.5

April 8, 2008 · Filed Under Blogs, Tutorials, WordPress · 7 Comments 

Today I upgraded my wordpress blogs to version 2.5 from 2.3.3. First I upgraded my English blog and checked the blog, no probs, so I decided to upgrade my Tamil blog as well.

Once the upgrading of Tamil blog is done I checked the home page, there is a warning error message.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mayuonli/public_html/blog/wp-includes/classes.php on line 92

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Blogger allows you to type directly in Tamil

February 13, 2008 · Filed Under Blogs, Google, Localisation, Tamil · 4 Comments 

Blogger has integrated its transliteration facilities to Blogger, so Tamils can directly input in Blogger window. Along with Tamil other Indian languages also included.

Follow the steps to activate!

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On Screen Keyboard for Tamil and Sinhala from Google

February 10, 2008 · Filed Under Google, Sinhalese, Tamil · 2 Comments 

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How many of you know that even if you don’t know the keyboard layout for Tamil or Sinhalese still you can type in Sinhalese or Tamil. Google has developed an on-screen keyboard where you can click and type.

Using this gadget you can search the internet on Google. Amazing isn’t it. Then why are you waiting?? Go and grab the gadget!

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