Google IME, also known as Google Input Tools, is a set of input method editors by Google for 22 languages, including

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, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi,

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, Persian,

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, Russian, Sanskrit,

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, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Urdu. It is a virtual keyboard that allows users to type in their local language text directly in any application without the hassle of copying and pasting. Available as a

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, it was also available as a desktop application for

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until it was removed in May 2018.

Google Transliteration IME

Google's service for

Indic languages Indic languages may refer to: * Indo-Aryan languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European languages spoken mainly in the north of the Indian subcontinent * Languages of the Indian subcontinent, all the indigenous languages of the region regardless of la ...

was previously available as an online text editor, named Google Indic Transliteration. Other language transliteration capabilities were added (beyond just Indic languages) and it was renamed simply

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. Later on, because of its steady rise in popularity, it was released as Google Transliteration IME for offline use in December 2009. It works on a dictionary-based phonetic transliteration approach, which means that whatever you type in Latin characters, it matches the characters with its dictionary and transliterates them. It also gives suggestions for matching words.

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Google IMEGoogle Pinyin IMEGoogle Japanese IMEGoogle Input Tools for WindowsGoogle Cloud Input Tools online

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