Next leap for Indian language technology</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Next leap for Indian language technology"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Next,leap,for,Indian,language,technology"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">09-05-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Next leap for Indian language technology</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New Delhi, India (Frontline): in 1997, C-DAC released the "Leap" multilingual office productivity suite, which allowed users in multiple Indian languages to produce text documents and presentation material and create professional quality brochures and flyers […]. But even when judged against this consistent output, the release a few weeks ago, by the Union Ministry of Information Technology, of 10 separate CD-based packages in as many languages, each containing word processing and spreadsheet tools, multiple font libraries, keyboard drivers, spelling checkers, transliteration tools and even a text-to-speech converter, was an awesome addition to the resource base in Indian language computing. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070518006412200.htm " target="blank">www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070518006412200.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show