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    Reverse Transliteration

Azhagi has a sophisticated Reverse Transliterator which can help you convert any Tamil Text back to its exact English phonetic equivalent. [This facility is available in the Professional version of Azhagi only].

To elaborate, Reverse Transliteration gives the reverse of the Tamil text you generated in 'Single Screen' interface, using either Transliteration or Tamil Typewriter or Tamilnet99 input mode. For a screen snapshot depicting this feature, visit http://azhagi.com/pics/snaps/azReverseTrans2.jpg.
Note: When you generate your Tamil text using 'Dual Screen' Transliteration, the English text is always visible and available and can be stored in a separate file too. So, Reverse transliteration is not needed.

Reverse transliteration is a first and one of its kind utility and it has helped some of our users immensely.

A few instances are mentioned below:

1. The Managing Director of one our corporate clients is from the Northern part of India. Though he has learnt to speak Tamil, he is unable to read Tamil. But, he is interested to read all the official correspondences which take place in Tamil and also very interested in reading Tamil literature (mainly Bharathi's poems) of interest to him. So, he needs all the text in Tamil to be delivered in Transliterated English. What the employees do is to type out the text in 'Single Screen' Transliteration mode or Tamil typewriter mode (which modes only they find convenient to type) using Azhagi and generate the transliterated English in reverse and hand it over to their MD.

2. Many of our users have their relatives/friends/grand-children who know to speak Tamil but do not know to read Tamil. For them also, reverse transliteration comes in very handy, for the same reasons as cited above. For instance, suppose you have a beautiful poem typed out in Tamil but the friend to whom you wish to email this poem does not know to read Tamil, though he is very interested in your poems. In such cases, you can very well use Reverse Transliterator to get back the English phonetic equivalent and send it across to him.

3. Users of Azhagi who are Astrologers and Film scriptwriters also find this very effective, for certain needs of them.

How to effect Reverse Transliteration?
Click on 'Tools->Power Tools->Reverse Transliteration' during 'Single-Screen' Transliteration. For a screen snapshot depicting this feature, visit http://azhagi.com/pics/snaps/azReverseTrans2.jpg.






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