Now chat in Native Indian languages in Google Chat !
"Sometimes there's just no substitute for expressing a thought in your own language." - Google Talkabout blog.
Now add spice to your chat conversations by directly chatting in native Indian languages. Google Talk team has introduced 5 more transliteration bots just for Indian Users.
If you want to transliterate to Tamil, add en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com in Gmail chat or Google Talk.
List of transliteration bots
To get your messages transliterated, you can add these bots
| Languages | Bots* |
| English to Hindi | en2hi.translit |
| English to Kannada | en2kn.translit |
| English to Malayalam | en2ml.translit |
| English to Tamil | en2ta.translit |
| English to Telugu | en2te.translit |
* don't forget to add @bot.talk.google.com
Steps to Group Chat in Native Language
To make the chat better, you can create a group chat session. Follow the steps in your GMail chat.
- Add en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com as a friend.
- Next start a chat conversation by clicking on the added bot.
- Invite more friends and make it a group chat.
What can be improved in this ?
The only irritating thing I found was that every text is displayed twice, both in english and in native language. Instead if the Gmail chat team does something to supress the english text, it will be really cool... and not cuil :P
Hey, the native fonts don't appear properly !
If you use anything other than IE6+ or Firefox 3, the fonts won't appear properly. Check this link to solve this problem.
hello
Welcome Raghav to Techtola.
Hey, why u take this much effort to do so...
its like some one is watching our personal conversation..
check out this , nMozhi
it supports languages Malayalam, Tamil, Telgu, kannada, Hindi, Gujarathi, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi and we can even mix languages in single conversation...
nJoy!! :-)