Google added the transliteration feature to several Google products such as Blogger, Knol, Orkut, Gmail and iGoogle. Google also released an API that lets 3rd party sites embed this technology at no charge. However, not all Google product support translation so to fill the gap, Google India Labs rolled out a Bookmarklet.

Today Google announce the launch of a new feature, Transliteration Bookmarklets, that will let you use transliteration on a website that does not support it currently. Transliteration Bookmarklets is a browser-based application that lets you type in your language in any text box on any website and gets added to your browser much like a regular bookmark.


For example, you can use them to:

  • Chat with your friends in your language using Gmail chat.
  • Search for Google news articles.
  • Send messages in your language on your favorite social networks.
  • Create or edit wikipedia pages in your language.

It support Internet Explorer, Firefox, Firefox Beta, Chrome and Safari & Flock. Once you install the bookmarklet on your favorite browser , you can simply turn transliteration on/off in the browser itself.

Right now it support Arabic, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language translation.

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