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Although typing Malayalam and other Indic languages have improved a lot in the recent past, using Malayalam or any other Indic Language for chat has been a big problem with not so much support from major Operating systems. Sometime back Google introduced support for Indic Transliteration. It works really well, offering suggestions and improving day by day. I have seen a considerable amount of improvement in Malayalam support in Google over the last couple of years.

I have tried many other standalone software also, but the integration with other applications has been a big problem. I really wanted some nice support for chatting in Malayalam and could not find a decent application which does this. Yesterday, I came across a FireFox plugin which does the exactly same thing I wanted to do. Let me take you through this nice plugin.

The name of this wonderful plugin is Google Indic Transliteration. At the time of writing this post, the version is 1.0.3. You can download the plugin here. Note that this is an experimental plugin you have to register in the site to download this plugin. This plugin uses Google Language API for transliteration. At present, this plugin works only on text area and input boxes. Don’t worry about that, this works in Google Chat Window.

Here are some screenshots:

Malayalam Chat Window

Malayalam Chat Auto Suggestions

Google Indic Transliteration Options

It offers all the features supported by Google Indic Translation. As you can see in the above screenshots, this plugin supports all languages supported by Google Language API. Also, you can set default language. I am sure that you will love this plugin.