Indic computing

Indic Computing means "computing in Indic" i.e. Indian Scripts and Languages. It involves developing software in Indic Scripts/languages, Input methods, Localization of computer applications, web development, Database Management, Spell checkers, Speech to Text and Text to Speech applications and OCR in Indian languages.

Most of the Indic scripts nowadays use Unicode for working on Computers and Internet. In Unicode 5.0, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Syloti Nagri, Tamil and Telugu scripts are encoded. Some more Indic scripts are in development and will be included in unicode, for instance Tulu Script.

A lot of Indic Computing projects are going on. They involve some government sector companies, some volunteer groups and individual people.

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, India initiated the TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages) with the objective of developing Information Processing Tools and Techniques to facilitate human-machine interaction without language barrier; creating and accessing multilingual knowledge resources; and integrating them to develop innovative user products and services.

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