Quillpad
Typing in Hindi is easy with Quillpad. Quillpad is a powerful universal mechanism for predictive text input that allows you to type phonetic Roman characters into your S60 3rd Edition device, and have the input be automatically interpreted as Hindi characters. Moreover, Quillpad is not limited to Hindi. The underlying Quill transliteration engine can be trained to respond intelligently in other complex languages such as Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and other languages. The Quillpad engine can take input from sources as diverse as 102-key keyboards to the standard keypads with 12 keys on most mobile phones. The integration of the Quillpad engine with Nokia’s Front End Processor (FEP) technology makes the multi-language short message service (SMS) process seamless for S60 3rd Edition device users.

Quillpad interprets single keystrokes in as intelligent a fashion as possible, thereby making it unnecessary to resolve the ambiguity of matching a numeric key to a letter using multiple keystrokes. When an ambiguity does exist, such as using 5+2+2 to get either ‘kab’ or ‘jab’, the Quillpad software pops up both choices and lets you choose the one you want by pressing the ‘*’ key. Quillpad adapts according to a pattern-based prediction mechanism rather than a dictionary-based one. This enables accurate prediction of non-dictionary words correctly in majority of the cases. Also, since English words are often used literally in languages such as Hindi or Kannada, the Quillpad mechanism lets you type the English word without having to spell it phonetically. Quillpad allows you to type SMS messages in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, and Nepali with a simple user interface. The Web version of Quillpad can be accessed at www.quillpad.in.

Tachyon Technologies
Tachyon Technologies Pvt Ltd, a startup company based in Bangalore and Chennai, India, was founded in 2000 by Ram Prakash H and K S Sreeram. The company is creating innovations in the area of machine learning applied to NLP. Quillpad is a language independent predictive input mechanism making SMS messaging easier in the many languages found in India, and making its underlying Quillpad engine available for other languages in the world as well. More at www.tachyon.in.