A Blog on Tamil and other things.
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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 websites giving English – Tamil dictionaries for free online.
1. Tamil Wiktionary – Tamil wiktionary is a Multi lingual – Tamil dictionary. It has more than One lakh words with a focus on technical gloassary prepared by Tamil virtual University. This is a free to edit dictionary. So you can improve the pages by adding [...]
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I was surprised to see AOL Tamil site today. When was it launched? Besides Hindi, Tamil is the only Indian language present there and the trend to give importance for Tamil can be seen in almost all Indian portals. But it’s just market logic. Next to Hindi, Tamil seems to dominate the Indian internet market. [...]
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When I checked the related keywords for Tamil in Google Adwords, it showed the following. It seems, Cinema and Porn top the list But this is as well a world wide trend for non-Tamil related content too.
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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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I played a role in changing the brand names of some online tamil utilities.
Suggested Tamilkey firefox extension be renamed as Tamilvisai (?????????) – because it is an extension made for tamils by tamils and will be used by tamils. If we don’t name it in Tamil then who else would do so? Besides the literal [...]
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