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The Senior Vice-President T9 Tegic Communications, AOL Mobile, Ray K. Tsuchiyama, and the Director, Mary Lou Hardy, during the launch of Verson 7.2 of T9 text input enhanced multi lingual software, for mobile phones and PDAs in New Delhi on Thursday. — Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
NEW DELHI, JAN. 20. Tegic Communications, the wholly-owned subsidiary of America Online Inc., today said it would soon launch its flagship brand — T9 Text Input Software — in India allowing easier and faster mobile message typing in different Indian languages. "By the end of June this year, the Hindi version of its upgraded T9 software will hit the Indian market followed by versions in other Indian languages, including Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and English," Senior Vice President of Tegic Communications, Ray Tsuchiyama, said. According to Mr. Tsuchiyama, "As mobile phones, and text messaging in particular, gain mainstream acceptance in India, we are delivering on our mission to make text entry faster, simpler and globally accessible. We hope to set a new standard for text input convenience and ease-to-use, helping people to communicate more easily." The company was in touch with leading OEMs, telecom operators and telecom retail chains to make its product popular. "Mobile handset manufacturers such as Sony Ericcson, LG, Nokia, Samsung and Siemens were already using T9 software for Indian mobile users. However, a current user of T9 software-enabled handset cannot upgrade to 7.2 version in the existing handset. Tegic has started talking to the same vendors for selling its version 7.2 software," he added. The software allows the phone to guess the word or phrase the user wants to type. Instead of pressing the phone keys several times over to type a word, users can enter text by pressing only one key per letter. As a word is entered, the software automatically compares all of the possible letter combinations against a built-in dictionary of words, and determines which word the user intended to type. "Our future plans include building awareness for predictive text to make product popular besides focusing on other Indian languages. We will also develop software's new versions with even more advanced usage capabilities and building more Indian language database," Mr. Tsuchiyama.
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