Free Online Tamil Radio Stations

1. BBC Tamil

2. Chinese Tamil Radio

3. Oli FM – Singapore Tamil Radio

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One of the most frequently asked question I encounter is:

Is there (free) English – Tamil translation software for download / online / offline?

The sad answer is NO.

There are some long running machine based translation research projects at Universities. But none have given usable product yet. Google offers translation services for Hindi. They also give a translation toolkit that can be used for any language. Right now it’s efficiency for Tamil translation is very rudimentary. It is supposed to get better when more users use it.

Google says that it can bring automatic machine based translation for Tamil too, if it can get millions of pages of documents with English and Tamil translation side by side. One place where such translated documents may reside with the legal department of the country. It’s in the Government’s hands to give them for public research if not to a private company like Google.

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Tamil computing forums

October 7, 2009

Tamil computing forums:
1. Free Tamil computing group – Free Tamil computing group is a good place to discuss, announce various topics related to Tamil computing. The group is quite active and has lot of friendly people.
2. INFITT – INFITT is a well known Think-Tank  for Tamil computing. The group has lot of veterans and plays [...]

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Tamil Text to Speech converters

October 7, 2009

List of Tamil Text to Speech converters:
1. Tamil Text to Speech converter from MILE lab, IISc – This converter is a recent invention by Dr. A. G. Ramakrishnan and his group. Kudos for them. The converter is in beta stage and exceeded my expectation in its quality.
2. Dhvani – The conversion quality is not as [...]

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Tamil Typing software

September 29, 2009

Tamil Typing software for computers:
1. NHM Writer – The ultimate tamil typing software I recommend. Works in Windows only.
2. TamilKey (a) TamilVisai – Firefox extension for typing Tamil. Since it is browser based works on all operating systems but can only be used online and only inside the browser.
3. SCIM – For typing Tamil in [...]

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Free WordPress Web Hosting

July 22, 2009

Would you like to blog in a own domain like me? I am offering Free WordPress web hosting now. Please see if it helps. Thanks.

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Buy Tamil Books Online

April 26, 2009

List of websites that sell Tamil books online:
1. NHM – Kizhakku Padhippagam – Online shop of the leading Tamil publication house Kizhakku Padhippagam (கிழக்குப் பதிப்பகம் ). Offers free shipping within India for purchases more than INR 250. It’s the only Tamil publication whose books are available in Amazon.com .
2. Anyindian.com – One of the [...]

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LTTE news websites

April 26, 2009

List of websites giving first hand, authentic news from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) view point:
* TamilNet.com
* Puthinam.com
Is there any other news website that gives original and trust worthy news regarding the LTTE ? Please let me know in the comments.

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Tamil Google

April 26, 2009

List of Google Services available in Tamil:
1. Tamil Google News – This is a significant milestone in Tamil internet with automatic aggregation and grouping of Tamil news content from both Unicode and Non-Unicode websites.
2. Tamil Google transliterator – Beware! I don’t recommend using Google Tamil Transliterator
The following services have an option for Tamil interface:
3. Gmail
4. [...]

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Tamil Fonts Download

April 19, 2009

Free Tamil fonts download websites:
1. Technology development for Indian Languages (TDIL) is a Government of India initiative under Indian Language Data center (ILDC). ILDC provides Open type and True Type Tamil fonts for download from Centre for Development of Advanced computing (C-DAC), Chennai Kavigal, Cadgraf Digitals Pvt. Ltd., Modular Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Pune.
2. Tamilnation.org page [...]

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