SENDING an email in one of the 24 script-based languages spoken in India, such as Hindi or Kannada, is difficult because the appropriate keyboards are hard to come by. Now a web service called QuillPad is being launched that will let millions of Indians send emails in their mother tongue.
To use QuillPad, you write messages phonetically using the Latin alphabet on a standard QWERTY keyboard, and watch the words appear in one of five chosen language scripts. The software generates script symbols that match the sound of the phonetically spelt word, getting it right around 95 per cent of…
