Gmail – input tools
The most important functionalities:
- creating messages in foreign languages using e.g. virtual keyboards
- using handwriting (one can write in over 50 languages using a computer mouse or a touchpad)
Find out more information:
https://www.google.pl/inputtools/services/features/handwriting.html
- tools can be used for many languages simultaneously
- easy writing in a chosen language in any place on the Internet
- automatic insertion of diacritic marks, spelling correction, word completion
- saving corrections (the possibility to add new words and names to a dictionary)
- transliteration (a type of conversion of one script to another based on phonetic similarity, eg. Latin alphabet letters are converted to signs that sound similar in the target language; transliteration offers approximate phonetic mapping; one can type approximate pronunciation using the Latin alphabet and transliteration enables finding the most appropriate equivalents)
Find out more information:
https://www.google.com/intl/pl/inputtools/services/features/transliteration.html
Recommended to:
- people working in international teams
- students and researchers using foreign resources
- translators
- linguists working on different languages
Note: input tools can only be used in a browser, they are not available in the Gmail application.