"However, gaps remain in standards and technologies, such as character encoding, freely distributable high quality unicode- compliant fonts and speech in Telugu," Lakshmaiah said These fonts will be brought into unicode by December this year," Lakshmaiah said.Īdvances in language technologies such as standardised unicode character encoding, improved support in internet browsers, personal computers and mobile devices, as well as tools like spell checkers, online dictionaries, speech input and output and handwritten character recognition are rapidly increasing the use of Telugu on the internet, especially for real end users, he said. "We are currently developing six Telugu fonts in unicode that will be standardised for internet use. The ICT department has joined an internal consortium on unicode to work in co-ordination with software giants like IBM, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo for promoting Telugu on the internet. The conference would also make recommendations to close gaps, where they exist, in standards and technologies. With Telugu getting recognition as a "classical language", emphasis is now on promoting it in a big way on the internet and bringing about a "technological revolution", they said.Ībout 60 scientists and technologists from India, USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and Malaysia, working in fields of language computing, would present technical papers on developing a unicode for Telugu. The conference will assess the state of art of technologies and tools available to internet users and consumers of information technology products in Telugu, with focus on promotion of the language on internet.Īddressing a press conference to announce the event, state Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah, former minister Mandali Buddha Prasad, Silicon Andhra founder Kuchibhotla Anand and former MP Y Lakshmi Prasad said Telugu was the 14th most-widely used language in the world with over 10 crore people speaking it. The Information and Communication Technologies Department of Andhra Pradesh government and US-based Silicon Andhra, an organisation committed to promotion of Telugu language and culture overseas, are jointly organising the conference with the theme "Telugu in the Internet age".
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