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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 [...]
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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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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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List of Tamil Font converters:
1. NHM Converter is available as both online and offline. Converts Unicode, Bamini, Vanavil, ShreeLipi, TSCII, DiaCritic, TAB, TAM, SoftView fonts to one another. Robust and converts of loads of data with ease.
2. Suratha PonguTamil is one of the earliest free online tamil font converters. has a new user friendly version at http://www.jaffnalibrary.com/tools/tamilconverter.htm .Focuses [...]
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Popular Tamil software websites
Offline / Desktop Tamil software products
1. Thamizha
Provides E-kalappai, a popular tamil typing software. Initiates and organizes localization of free software like Firefox, OpenOffice, TuxPaint in Tamil.
2. NHM software
Makers of NHM Writer, NHM converter and NHM Lister. They help in Tamil typing, font conversion, word counting.
3. Sarma
Provide English-Tamil dictionary, Indian language computing services, [...]
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NHM converter is a free-of-cost Tamil font encoding converter tool from the makers of NHM writer.
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NHM Writer is a never-seen-before tool for tamil typing.
Features of NHM writer:
1. Free-of-cost
2. Downloadable. An online version of NHM writer will be launched soon.
3. This makes your Windows system Tamil ready on installing this. So you will be able to read, write Tamil well in all Windows applications. This is cool, as every other software would [...]
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Check out the Tamil CAPTCHA in use. Now, spammers / spam bots will have to learn Tamil
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A free and robust optical character recognition software. The one we have now, Ponvizhi, is inadequate.
A text-to-voice converter for Tamil to help blind and dumb people.
A voice-to-text converter for Tamil to help deaf people.
A spell checker module – both online and off line.
A Multilingual-Tamil- Multilingual dictionary module – both online and off line and [...]
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You can type, read Tamil in any computer with any operating system like Windows, Mac, Linux.
You don’t need to buy any software or new keyboard to type in Tamil. You get free softwares to do it and you can use the same qwerty / asdf English keyboard that you have to type in Tamil. [...]
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