[Fsf-kerala] Typing Malayalam

[Eric John]

>
> Quillpad is supposed to respond to English words with output that's
> phonetically similar to the English pronunciations


Works well I suppose, I hope to see google's code using the indic fonts soon
(provided they put it up on their code/gadget repo). But I'm curious about
any custom language processing algorithms (maybe some STL?) or APIs for
"miglish" translation? Or any other language as a matter of fact? Obviously
quillpad and google seems to use the same algo for malayalam words but a
different parsing system for actual english words.

> The obvious fact being google seems to mess up quillpad(കുഇല്ല്പദ് ) and
> > quillpad seems to mess up google(ഗൂക്ലേ)
> >
> Ah, I see a 'k' in the transliteration of Google ... does that say
> "GooKle?"



Clarification: "google" at transliteration is ഗൂഗിള്  and google at quillpad
is ഗൂക്ലേ. Please derive your own conclusions.

Post script um: Why should we type manglish and encrypt into junk and then
> decrypt into manglish and then understand it as malayalam?
>

It's always good to see innovations in language processing and translations.
For a start, it helps people who speak malayalam but are unable to write
using the correct libhi(or anything?!?).

Cheers,
Eric



On 10/31/07, Roshan Mathews <rmathews at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/31/07, Eric John <Eric.John at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Both appz seems to give the same output for actual mallu words (eg.
> keralam,
> > kili, megham etc), but seem to mess it up for english words. Being
> totally
> > unaware about language processing algos and not being proficient in
> > malayalam(!), I kinda find this interesting and weird.
> >
> Quillpad is supposed to respond to English words with output that's
> phonetically similar to the English pronunciations ... I can't read
> Malayalam (except for four or five letters), so could someone "read"
> them out for me?
>
> > The obvious fact being google seems to mess up quillpad(കുഇല്ല്പദ് ) and
> > quillpad seems to mess up google(ഗൂക്ലേ)
> >
> Ah, I see a 'k' in the transliteration of Google ... does that say
> "GooKle?"
>
> --
> Roshan Mathews
>
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