Mr. baladutt, surprising yet true......The Government of India (the Department of
Information Technology (DIT)) is sending out Free Hindi software CD to anyone by post. Here are the contents of the Hindi CD:
Hindi Language True Type Fonts With Keyboard Driver
The data can be created in any Window applications i.e. on Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The Keyboard Layouts could be Inscript, Phonetic or Typewriter type.
Hindi OCR
Scan Hindi Newspapers or Hindi magazines and convert hindi into editable text with this free Hindi OCR software. Any printed font format can be trained with this training module thus enhancing the accuracy of the product.
Text To Speech System for Hindi
Talk to your computer in Hindi. The computer can read the Hindi text for you. The basic requirement is for this to work you must have a sound card with speakers.
Hindi Language Spell Checker
Spell check Hindi data entered in MS Word through GIST TT typing tool.
Dictionary English-Hindi
Find hindi words with this powerful English-Hindi dictionary.
Translation Support System For English-Hindi
This provides online translations for English sentences to Hindi.
Hindi Text Corpora
The copyright free books in Hindi have been made available as a download having text in UNICODE format. This can be used by developers and language learners.
Hindi is the second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese.
Around 500 million people speak Hindi in India and abroad, and the
total number of people who can understand the language is estimated
to be around 800 million. According to a survey in 1997, 66% of all
Indians can speak Hindi, and 77% of Indians regard Hindi as "one
language across the nation". More than 180 million people in India
regard Hindi as their mother tongue. Another 300 million use it as a
second language.
Answered by
keshto
, an ibibo Master,
at
6:27 PM on April 21, 2008