India: with newer tech, language users log on to Internet

By NNN-PTI,

New Delhi : Not familiar with English but still keen to access the Internet and communicate through the medium?


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Not a problem, thanks to localisation of the online medium one can access favourite content-related features in various regional languages.

Corporates are now bending over backward to tap the huge regional language section of the online medium with a host of keyboards and software applications designed to cater to the needs of regional language users.

And the recent one to join the bandwagon is Educom, an Indian education company, that has recently launched MagiKeys,’ a keyboard and a software application which allows the user to communicate on the web, email, chat and write documents in mother tongue.

“MagiKeys’ USP is its ease of use. MagiKeys requires no training and has an intelligent software that predicts the next letter to be typed, making it easy to use in regional languages,” says Shlomo Ariel of FTK Technologies, the company who has developed the software.

Soumya Kanti, President-ICT, Educomp Solutions Ltd working in the field of education software says they are in talks with various state governments to implement MagiKeyss virtual Indian Language keyboard in their government schools as most children in these schools speak and write in their mother tongue.

“In addition, it will also empower teachers to communicate effectively and make presentations for teaching and learning purposes in regional languages,” Kanti adds.

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