Bengaluru, Saturday March 25, 2017: More than 900 million Indians speak 11 Indian languages Hindi, Bangla, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi and Assamese. Many want the convenience of typing in their language natively or phonetically. Reverie Language Technologies’ popular Android app Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip is now available in all these 11 Indian languages as a free download on iOS’ App Store. Swalekh empowers the iPhone users to type in even those Indian languages such as Malayalam, Odia, Kannada, Assamese which are not supported by iOS’ Indic keyboard.
At 5.9MB, this multilingual Indian keyboard has the lowest memory footprint in India and downloads in less than a minute with a 3G connection.
As an end-to end language input solution the Indic Keypad Swalekh Flip supports the following three modes with a user friendly navigation:
– The English mode allows the user type in English just like any other English keyboard
– The phonetic mode allows the user to simply type in English characters and allows real-time transliteration into the chosen Indian language script. This is especially useful for English language users who would like to communicate in Hinglish, Kanglish and any other available Indian language combination along with English.
– The native mode allows the users to type in their chosen Indian language.
Apart from the above, other integral features of Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip include:
– Choice of grammatically accurate typing in 11 popular Indian languages without contributing to junk character or content creation
– Easy to add/create conjuncts in Indian languages ensuring more real estate for users to view on their open apps
Flip view settings – The flip icon on the top left of the keyboard shows settings that are available in the language of choice
– Progressive prediction that enables you to complete your message faster
– Keyboard height changing option for enhanced aesthetics
– Font size changing option to accommodate users
– Auto capitalisation to enhance grammatical accuracy
– Localised menu for empowering native users to access settings
– Pop up and sound on key press
– Select from 2 themes and 24 mood colours
Debashis Roy, AVP & Business Head – Mobility Products at Reverie language Technologies said, “Whether native or phonetic; using your own Indian language is trending. Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip with its 11 Indian languages on one keyboard allows its users to communicate in their local language. Accessibility to Indian languages for iPhone users is validated by the fact Apple does 4.6% of its global sales in India’s top 30 cities. Also, 25 major Tier 2 & 3 cities in India currently make up 21.3% of the Indian smartphone market. ”
With its debut on the iOS App Store, the aesthetically designed and intuitive Indian language keyboard helps iPhone users to communicate digitally in their preferred language. Since its launch on Android Play Store in January 2016, it has seen more than 3.6 lakh installs and enjoys an above average app rating of 4.2 stars. The top five cities that use Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip on Android are New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad.
The Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip was built keeping in mind Reverie Languages Technologies’ vision to promote Language Equality On the InternetTM and build an Internet that is truly Indian. This necessitated the need for an Indian language input solution for all Indian language users wherever they are, worldwide.
About Reverie Language Technologies:
Reverie’s vision is to promote Language Equality on the InternetTM. It was founded in 2009 by Arvind Pani, Vivek Pani and S.K Mohanty, and is led by a strong R&D technology team that builds technologies to bridge the language divide in the digital world. Reverie works with OEM & chipset manufacturers across millions of devices, enterprises (online retail, e-commerce marketplaces, travel, media & entertainment, banks and financial services), e-governance, and the developer community.
Reverie’s Language-as-a-ServiceTM (LaaSTM) cloud platform provides localisation services such as local-language translation, transliteration, device input, and multilingual search through a set of APIs. The platform integrates with business infrastructure (websites and apps) to enable end users to consume digital content in their preferred language in multiple languages, real-time. For more visit http://reverieinc.com/
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