Reverie Language Technologies has launched Swalekh keypad, its first multi-lingual keyboard for Android. It has support for 11 Indian languages that includes, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, in addition to English.
The idea behind launching Swalekh is to empower local language users to have a delightful experience while interacting in their preferred language in a digital ecosystem which is dominated by English, said the company.
It would add other Indian official languages and several popular dialects in future update. It plans to launch its operations in international markets such as the Middle East and South East Asia over the next 6 months.
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Commenting on the launch, Arvind Pani, Co-founder and CEO, Reverie Language Technologies, said:
After months of research, Swalekh has been designed and developed keeping non-English users in mind. We pride ourselves in calling it ‘Made in India, Made for India product. At Reverie, we have always aimed to address the local language user experience problem from all angles – be it typing, reading, quality of fonts, content discovery etc. I’m confident Swalekh will take the local language user experience up by many notches and it will set a trend among digital users to express themselves in their local language.
Features of Reverie Swalekh for Android
- Supports 11 Indian languages
- Can be used in three modes – native, phonetic and macaronic.
- Native mode lets users type using the native language character keyboard.
- Phonetic mode enables users to type in English, the text gets converted into their language of choice automatically.
- In the macaronic mode, users can communicate in their native language and in English
- Advance predictive typing feature reduces typographic errors to a great extent by preventing typing of words erroneously.
Download Swalekh (Free) – Android