Nuance delivers T9 text input software in Hinglish

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Responding to a population of over 350 million 'Hinglish' (mixture of Hindi and English) speakers in the Indian subcontinent, Nuance Communications Inc., a leading supplier of speech, imaging solutions and text input solutions, announced the availability of its popular T9 Text Input software in Hinglish.

Nuance's T9 Hinglish software offers advanced alphabetic input prediction in Hinglish to help mobile phone and PDA users to quickly write SMS text messages, mobile instant messages and wireless e-mails in a language popular with India’s youth.

Specifically, the advanced T9 text input product offers enhanced Hinglish support, making it easier for users to use Hinglish words like chai, desi, jungli etc., while composing SMSes. This upgrade joins additional valuable features that were added to T9 Version 7 series software earlier to provide an unparalleled robust end-user experience. Among others, these new features include an enhanced word completion function and next word prediction.

Hinglish T9 is the first T9 mixed-language database, consisting of tens of thousands of Hindi words transliterated into Latin script, as well as a vast English wordlist. A demo and early release of Hinglish T9 is available for licensing to the handset makers. Hinglish T9 joins the world’s only extensive suite of Indic languages for predictive text input for mobile devices in vernacular script, including Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, and newly-released Kannada.

"Keeping in mind the growth of Hinglish as the emerging language spoken especially by urban youth in India it becomes important for us to cater to this segment," said Eric Collins, General Manager & Vice President, Nuance.  He added, "Today, as mobile phones and text messaging in particular gain mainstream acceptance in India, we are delivering on our mission to make text entry faster, simpler and more consumer friendly."