writeKA - now on Google's सबसे लोकप्रिय सामग्री

Yes! The writeKA Hindi Transliterator gadget made it to the blue list, the list of most popular Google Gadgets on the Hindi version of iGoogle. Its a volatile virtual world out there, so I'm going to enjoy my moment of glory. :-) When you read this, if I'm lucky, it'll still be there. Go to http://www.google.co.in/ig/hi and if you are NOT logged in, iGoogle will show you a list of most popular utilities.


Apart from this great news, I've updated writeKA's transliteration gadgets to use the new intelligent Scripton engine.

You can add them to your Google home page -
writeKA Hindi Transliterator for iGoogle
writeKA Malayalam Transliterator for iGoogle

You can also also add them to your website -
writeKA Hindi Transliterator for your website
writeKA Malayalam Transliterator for your website

Who moved my blog?

I did.... :-) This is the new link - http://blog.writeka.com/.

I've also made small updates to Scripton. In the editor area, you'll notice that inputted words do not "disappear" until the system finds the correct transliteration any more. They stay on the editor and convert from English to Hindi (or Malayalam) as soon as the transliteration is available. I know its a bit slow, but I can't help it, I'm just an individual player here. If you're an entrepreneur, invest in me and I can make this better. ;-) Apart from this, I've updated the email functionality on Scripton so that emails are now accepted by Yahoo and AOL as well.

Its been a while . . .

Its been a while since I posted on the blog now... I've been busy with work and haven't been able to do many updates on writeKA of late. I thought I needed to change that and so I sat down and managed to figure out what I need to do to resolve some issues which had been pending for a long time now. This includes the email delivery issue on Scripton. I also have a few new ideas, so hoping to bring the updates online soon.

I'm planning on moving the blog to the main website in the next couple of days.

Malayalam, now on Scripton!

I've recently added intelligent online transliteration for Malayalam using the new Scripton transliteration engine. Scripton tries to predict what word you are trying to in without using any fixed transliteration map. For example, if you type in malayalam ezhuthan eluppam, then you'll get മലയാളം എഴുതാന്‍ എളുപ്പം.

Go ahead and give it a try - writeKA Scripton - English to Malayalam.

Introducing Scripton . . .

I just realised I never formally introduced Scripton, the new intelligent online transliteration engine on writeKA (and a distant cousin of Scripto from the previous post)! OK, now I did. :-)

Right now, only the Hindi version of Scripton is publicly available. Other languages will follow soon. (as soon as I get to work on it!) Why do call Scripton intelligent? Because, it does a moderately good job of trying to guess the words correctly when you write in Hindi. For example, if you write tamatar aur kabutar, it will give the correct output as टमाटर और कबूतर. This wouldn't be possible in a fixed map engine like the ones used earlier. The engine will only improve with time as more people use it and correct presently incorrect outputs.

Give it a shot - writeKA Scripton.