Microsoft Maren: Transliteration Tool For Arabic
A couple of months back Microsoft India released the Indic Input tool for transliteration. The tool has been received well, so much so that at most Microsoft India events, the tool is talked about. Indic Input allows you to type in English and converts that into the Indian language you have selected. Recently I came across something similar for Middle East. The tool is called Microsoft Maren and works the same as the Indic Input tool.
What Maren has done better than Indic Input is, have a neat logo and nice video explaining what Maren is.
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Thank you for mentioning this tool. I’ve been using Maren (which means Flexible in Arabic) since it was released and it works really good. Google have released a similar tool called ‘Transliteration IME’ which works for both Arabic and Hindi. It wasn’t compatible with Windows 64bit when I first tested it but it looks like they’ve fixed that now.
Other web apps are available for Arabic aswell… http://yamli.com was actually the first to come up with this idea, and it’s still the best. Google then followed with http://www.google.com/ta3reeb/ and Microsoft being good at desktop applications introduced Maren then of course Google responded with it’s own desktop application http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration/
Very interesting ! But I have some questions: How is this implemented on documents? Do you MS Office tools? If so, does this application work offline? Is the database then prepared and ready with the MS Office tools?
It works oneline but it has its own engine.
Hello,
Please ara there a tool which transliterates Arabic to English letters, i.e the inverse of Maren tool ?