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January 25, 2023

4 Points Checklist for Mobile App Localization

Food delivery has an app, Online banking has an app, entertainment has an app. From education to healthcare to businesses, wherever there is a task to be done, it can

January 18, 2023

Localisation Technology for Website Translation

More than 1/3 of all internet users are non-native English speakers, and according to Forrester Research, visitors stay for twice as long (site stickiness) if the website

January 13, 2023

Achieve Customer Support Automation with Multilingual Chatbot for Indian Languages

As it’s known, a business can not succeed in the long run without customer satisfaction. This becomes even more difficult when your business is spanned across multiple locations &

January 10, 2023

Machine Translation for Indian Language Localisation & Faster Go-To-Market

India has one of the fastest-growing economies. As India progresses in fields like education, tourism, religion, trade, business, science, and technology, etc. the need for translation has diversified. India

December 26, 2022

Why is English to Hindi transliteration crucial in the Indian eCommerce Industry?

English to Hindi transliteration in eCommerce is becoming increasingly important for every Indian eCommerce businesses. Knowing multiple languages is always considered advantageous in any company. Additionally, transliteration solutions from English

December 23, 2022

How can the eBooks Industry benefit from Text-to-Speech API?

Gone are the days when you needed to buy physical books to learn or enjoy from. Now all you need to do is to enter an eBook or a Podcast

January 25, 2023

4 Points Checklist for Mobile App Localization

Food delivery has an app, Online banking has an app, entertainment has an app. From education to healthcare to businesses, wherever there is a task to be done, it can

January 18, 2023

Localisation Technology for Website Translation

More than 1/3 of all internet users are non-native English speakers, and according to Forrester Research, visitors stay for twice as long (site stickiness) if the website

January 13, 2023

Achieve Customer Support Automation with Multilingual Chatbot for Indian Languages

As it’s known, a business can not succeed in the long run without customer satisfaction. This becomes even more difficult when your business is spanned across multiple locations &

January 10, 2023

Machine Translation for Indian Language Localisation & Faster Go-To-Market

December 26, 2022

Why is English to Hindi transliteration crucial in the Indian eCommerce Industry?

December 23, 2022

How can the eBooks Industry benefit from Text-to-Speech API?

Gone are the days when you needed to buy physical books to learn or enjoy from. Now all you need to do is to enter an eBook or a Podcast

December 21, 2022

Language Localisation benefits the Government Bodies

How does Online Language Localization Benefit the Government in Serving Citizens Better? Today, 5.07 billion individuals worldwide use the internet, accounting for 63.5 percent of the

December 16, 2022

Multilingual Voice Bots - an Eminent AI tool in the Indian Insurance Industry

The insurance industry is complex. However, having enough insurance for everyone is critical for our overall health, security, and well-being. And, if you are a company that provides insurance

December 05, 2022

Healthcare Localisation - Its Growing Importance During and in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Everyone was caught off guard when the COVID -19 pandemic emerged between late 2019 and early 2020. A serious disease that initially looked like an epidemic quickly spread to almost

November 22, 2022

6 Reasons to Use Reverie's Transliteration API in Building a Multilingual Brand Presence

When we think of personalization, we might picture things like customized product recommendations, focused advertising, and similar things. However, when thinking about personalization, language and multilingual brand presence is a

November 14, 2022

7 Key Steps to Get Your Website Localisation Started

Companies believe that choosing English as a preferred language is a wise course of action while marketing their brand to audiences located all over India. After all, English is spoken

October 31, 2022

5 Ways Multilingual Chatbots and Voicebots are Transforming the Banking Industry

Almost every industry has been impacted by digital transformation as businesses strive to gain a competitive edge and meet shifting consumer demands. Conversational automation powered by multilingual voicebots

October 18, 2022

Fintechs Increase Conversions and Revenue Generation 5X with Language Localisation

Fintech has been expanding at an increasingly rapid rate, and total investments in the industry reached $102 billion in 2021, an increase of more than 180% year over year.

October 11, 2022

Website Localisation with Anuvadak - Enhances Business Growth & Profits by 50%

The advent of technology has brought businesses and their customers closer than ever before. By using a search engine with the right keywords, just anybody in the world can

October 07, 2022

Enhance your Customer Experience & Customer Satisfaction Rate with Insurance Localisation

The insurance industry expanded to 17% in April and May of this year, compared to a 9% growth in 2020 and 2021; this success is attributed to digitization. In

September 30, 2022

How can Banks Enhance Trust in Customers with Banking Localisation?

Despite India's long history of financial inclusion initiatives, India has had limited success in attracting its most vulnerable citizens (nearly 280 million) to use banks and financial services.

September 23, 2022

3-Solid Reasons to Invest in eCommerce Localisation Now!

One of the most pressing concerns of the e-commerce industry today is helping customers go digital. Though there has been a steady increase in the number of shoppers online

September 13, 2022

Website Localisation - A High Impact Technique to Enhance Website Traffic

Website Localisation to drive better website traffic can be challenging, but the additional effort is worth it. Many potential customers won't even be aware that your brand exists if

August 30, 2022

Multilingual Voicebots: The Wave of the Future

Customers look forward to communicating with your brand in their native language, regardless of whether you have a physical location or only an online presence. Multilingual Voicebots have become

March 09, 2022

How Can Video Localisation Help eLearning Companies Reach Larger Audiences?

Tap into new regional markets, expand reach, and win long-term student loyalty with video localisation. Today, the new-generation eLearning providers of India are taking conscious steps forward to

February 25, 2022

How Can Localisation of Your eCommerce Website Reduce Bounce Rates?

Ecommerce is one of the fastest-growing markets in India, and with the increase in the young Indian demography, increase in smartphone usage, high internet penetration, and favourable government policies

February 01, 2022

How to Plan Your Website Localisation & How to Localise a Website?

India, our motherland, is a linguistically diversified country with more than 22 officially recognised languages and over 2,000 other dialects and languages. Over the last decade, there has been

July 21, 2021

How Reverie solves the Indian language voice data challenge uniquely

I am Janajit Bagchi. I lead the Data Engineering function for Products and R&D at Reverie Language Technologies. I and my team are responsible for the supply of

July 06, 2021

The Indian Internet Conundrum: How National Education Policy can help bridge the language barrier

This article was originally published on BW Education on 05 June, 2021. A nation is not developed by her 'rulers.' She is developed by her people. Seven decades after reclaiming

June 28, 2021

How automation can aid Indian translators achieve the National Language Translation Mission

This article was originally published on INDIAai on Feb 26, 2021. Highlights Breaking the misnomers - how automation and CAT tools can empower translators to deliver high volume translation projects like

June 23, 2021

How to overcome language barriers for enabling inclusive Indian FinTech

This article was originally published on indiafintechdiaries.com on April 14, 2021. India FinTech Diaries - In conversation with Arvind Pani, CEO & Co-founder According to the 2011 language

June 07, 2021

5 steps for effective website localization

India, a multilingual country with thousands of languages and even more dialects, is becoming the largest market for localisation. Businesses encounter a large gap while reaching out to customers as

May 06, 2021

Prabandhak AI Goes Global with Version 2.0

In the growing era of digitalisation, the demand for Indian language content is on the rise, with over 536 million users accessing the content in their local languages. The Indian

December 15, 2020

How to automate dynamic website localisation cost-effectively in any language

Hundreds of millions of Indians will now be online for what is the first time ever, owing to the pandemic. In fact, rural Indian internet usage has surpassed that of

November 18, 2020

How Indian-Language Translators Can Translate 40% Faster With Prabandhak AI

Indian language internet users - a demographic estimated to cross 530 million in 2021 - are hungry for digital content in their own language. Traditionally, the Indian internet has primarily been in

July 15, 2020

Why should marketers consider website localization?

Websites are prime real estate for any company with a digital presence. As the primary touchpoint for discovery, websites are generally the first asset of a company that a user

July 15, 2020

Is the Indian translation industry keeping up with the market demand?

India’s lingual diversity has always been its cultural highpoint. It, therefore, is barely surprising to see it shaping the internet and its rise in India. 9 out of 10

September 12, 2019

Revolutionizing Digital Healthcare in India with language Localization

mHealth or Mobile healthcare services have already revolutionized the healthcare industry in India. Starting from digital medical appointments to ordering medicines online at the lowest prices, healthcare apps have brought

September 05, 2019

Capturing Market Share With Strategic Localization

Prioritizing Localization in 2019 If there’s one thing we’re grateful for in 2019, it’s the fact that localization has become more of a priority for companies looking

August 29, 2019

Educating India’s New Internet Users Better Through Language Localisation

The Indian internet is growing at a rapid pace, spurred on by slashed data rates and cheaper handsets. Tens of millions of Indians are coming online for the first time

August 26, 2019

Enhancing Customer Experience with Multilingual Chatbot for E-commerce Platforms!

Due to the increasing smartphone penetration and reduced data charges, e-commerce is rapidly taking its roots in India by offering a more comfortable shopping experience. According to Google, in

July 01, 2019

Redefine Online Education In India with Localization!

With the emergence of technological advancement, especially in the digital world, education has found a whole new dimension. Whether it is for kids or for adults, learning has become much

May 18, 2019

Unity Rendering For Indic Scripts

Unity is one of the most powerful and popular tools for game development across platforms. Originally used to make games for desktops and consoles, it now lets you build games

May 10, 2019

Indian Language Internet Brings More Employment Opportunities in India

When it comes to employment in India, English language has ruled this sphere long after the independence. We started adapting to English language when India was a British colony. In

May 08, 2019

These techies are riding on Reliance Industries' might to enter mega league

For Arvind Pani of Reverie and Haptik's Aakrit Vaish, RIL's investment allows them to continue pursuing their passion and building solutions for a much larger audience that only

April 30, 2019

Localization of Receipts to Build Trust Among Indian Internet Users

Did you ever imagine a day when a roadside vendor will also accept online payment? With the increased usage of internet enabled devices and affordable high-speed internet, the number

April 23, 2019

Localization of Sales Promotions to Reach Multilingual User-Base

Offers and discounts can significantly increase the sale of a product on an online platform. To avail such promotional offers, the customers must be notified about those in the first

April 16, 2019

Banking Localization Part II - Localized Communication

In our earlier blog, "Crucial Role of Localization in Financial Inclusion", we spoke about how banking platforms should be localized in order to help millions of Indians move towards greater

April 12, 2019

Reverie Language Technologies Enters Strategic Partnership with Reliance Industries

We are glad to announce that Reliance Industries has made a strategic investment in Reverie Language Technologies which will further boost our mission to achieve language equality on the internet

April 09, 2019

Crucial Role of Language Localization in Financial Inclusion

Tens of millions of Indians are moving towards greater financial security, by making the transition from unbanked to banked. More and more accounts are being opened. At the same time

March 14, 2019

Localizing E-Retail Platforms

When it comes to shopping online, e-commerce platforms have stolen the limelight. However, it’s important to remember that it’s not the only form of online shopping. E

March 07, 2019

Localization - Building A Human Connect

Localization, while it can have numerous benefits for platforms, is more than just a way to meet lead targets and user growth. In a previous post, we spoke about how

February 28, 2019

Disseminating Voter Education & Data Through Localized Communication

Voter Education In The Mobile Age With the elections around the corner, efforts are underway to ensure citizens receive relevant, personalized messaging, messaging that they can comfortably understand. Localization can

February 21, 2019

Indic Voice Support For Digital Entertainment Platforms

In previous posts, we’ve talked about how voice technology can greatly expand the range of functionality an Indian language internet user can expect to enjoy from a website or

February 01, 2019

Digital #BhāṣāWeekly 01-02-19

It’s an exciting time to be in language technology, and working on localising the Indian internet. Here's our next installment of Digital #BhāṣāWeekly! The lack of

January 18, 2019

Payment Gateway in Local Language Leads to Higher Conversion

25% of Indian language internet users face difficulty in using English language payments interfaces, causing drop offs E-commerce platforms have experienced wild popularity, allowing Indians all over the country

January 07, 2019

Welcoming 2019 In Indic Localization

2018 has been a great year for the Indian language internet, and for Indic localization. It set the stage for certain trends that we feel will dominate the localization industry

January 03, 2019

Combating OTP Fraud With Localized Indic Communication

Digital Banking & Language While banks use Indian languages offline, helping make banking services accessible to the common Indian, they stick to English online, a language that only 10% of

December 20, 2018

Team Reverie Attends NITI Aayog Led Bhārat NLP Stack Workshop

Making #AIForAll A Reality Recently, Team Reverie was invited to take part in NITI Aayog led workshop titled Bhārat NLP. This workshop was part of the Government’s wider

December 04, 2018

Indian Language Voice Chatbots & Digital Banking

Bringing Digital Banking To The Unbanked Voice technology in Indian languages can play a key role in bringing digital banking to the unbanked. [This piece originally appeared in Banking Frontiers

October 26, 2018

Helping Food Ordering Apps Break The Language Barrier

Food ordering apps have become a mainstay of middle class eating habits. They’ve revolutionized the way we eat, bringing an unprecedented level of comfort to our dining. Want to

October 15, 2018

Introducing - Digital #BhāṣāWeekly For Indian Language Tech & Localisation!

It’s an exciting time to be in language technology, and working on localising the Indian internet. Now that India’s English speaking class is mostly already online, the focus

September 27, 2018

Dealing With Translation Subjectivity

Translation aims at building bridges between languages, by making content in one language accessible in another. However, it goes much further than that. It also involves building bridges between the

September 19, 2018

Creating Indian Language E-Commerce Experiences Beyond Interfaces

India’s e-commerce market, by all indicators, is shaping up to be a massive sector. With a market worth around $50 billion, hundreds of millions of Indian internet users

September 11, 2018

Localising The Indian Government's e-Marketplace For Increased Adoption

The internet can be a powerful tool for government bodies to achieve various goals. There are various major objectives - building citizen engagement, promoting e-literacy among citizens, expanding the reach

August 30, 2018

Introducing Prabandhak - Uncomplicate Localisation!

India’s Indian Language Content Explosion The Indian language internet has been growing at an increasingly rapid pace, with a shift towards the vernacular that has steadily been changing the

August 29, 2018

Indian Language Localisation For Logistics & Last Mile Delivery

Indian e-commerce has been seeing rapid expansion in the recent past, something that is predicted to gather even more speed with time. With more and more internet users coming

August 14, 2018

India's Digital Linguistic Independence

On Independence Day, as we celebrate India’s potential to grow and take pride in all it’s achieved, let’s not forget the very languages in which the hopes

August 10, 2018

Bringing Digital Indic Script Standardization Back To India

In our previous series on character standardization & the Government of India’s language mandate for mobile devices, we saw the importance of creating standards for Indic script sets. Background

July 20, 2018

What India’s 2011 Census Indic Language Data Tells Us

In July 2018, the Government Of India released language data for the 2011 Census of India’s language section, with statistics on Indic language usage and growth. India as a

June 08, 2018

Reverie’s Digital Indian Language Report, Issue #2 Is Out!

Introducing Reverie's Digital Indian Language Report, Issue #2! Download our report Get detailed insights on Indian language internet consumers in our Digital Indian Language Report, Issue #2! [super_form id

May 24, 2018

Our Experiences With Copyright Infringement

As Indian companies grow and come of age, the Indian entrepreneurial community has witnessed lots of growth in home-grown tech solutions and innovative intellectual property, many of which deal

March 15, 2018

Localizing Video & Music Streaming Platforms In Indian Languages

Indians love their entertainment - both in video and music format. It’s something that defines us as a culture, cutting across linguistic and regional differences. What’s more, how Indians

March 14, 2018

Beating Apple’s Killer Symbol flaw with Reverie’s solution

The “killer symbol” ruthlessly crashed Apple devices on such a scale that some devices needed their OS to be restored from scratch through a tedious process for them to work

March 01, 2018

Why You Should Localize Cross Channel Customer Communication

Over the years, websites and apps have gotten smarter and smarter. They have started interacting with their users, providing them with a much greater level of engagement than ever before

February 15, 2018

Making Video on Demand Indian User Friendly

The Indian internet is, as we claim, seeing a second spurt of growth, this time driven by the availability of Indian language support on digital devices. Similarly, digital content in

February 13, 2018

Usability vs Perfection: Perspectives in Translation

“Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text” “Translation is the process whereby the

February 08, 2018

India’s Upcoming Indic Language Mandate For Mobile Devices - Input, Editing & Testing

In our earlier blogs we outlined how the language mandate is of tremendous help for first time internet users of India and what must be done to implement this mandate

January 31, 2018

The Case For Indic Search

Search on websites and apps is one of those things we use so much and so often, we take it for granted. But have you ever heard of Indic search

January 16, 2018

Why We Should All #PledgeToTeach Indic Typing

Smartphones have made our lives so much easier. They’ve expanded what you can do with technology, by tapping into the near limitless power of the internet. Typing is a

December 28, 2017

Reverie’s Indic Phonebook Is Now On iOS!

Realize it or not, if you make multiple phone calls a day, your phonebook is probably among your most used apps. Given that every time you need to make a

December 28, 2017

2017 In Language Technology – The Indian Internet’s Second Big Turning Point

Even as 2017 draws to a close, the steady march of technology continues at brisk pace, ever gaining momentum. Included in its orbit is the field of language technology

December 14, 2017

India’s Upcoming Indic Language Mandate For Mobile Devices - Building Character Sets

In part one of our series on the Government of India’s language support mandate, we discussed what the mandate means for India’s internet users and what greater implications

December 01, 2017

How Indic Languages Can Boost Banking

Financial inclusion is a mission that every bank is responsible for helping build. As banks increase their customer base and provide more Indians with access to financial services and banking

November 27, 2017

Introducing Reverie's First Digital Indian Language Report!

India’s linguistic diversity is staggering. So is the digital Indian language ecosystem. Issue #2 of our Digital Indian Language Report is out, released July 2018! It can be viewed

November 13, 2017

India’s Upcoming Indic Language Mandate For Mobile Devices - An Overview

The Government of India is rolling out a mandate covering Indic text support on smartphones and feature phones. We will be covering the mandate and what it means for India

October 19, 2017

Knowledge is Power - Sir Fancis Bacon

Author: Vivekananda Pani, Co-founder & CTO There is no denial that one who knows nothing, finds oneself unworthy of anything. It is knowledge that empowers an individual, creates value

October 12, 2017

Reverie’s Swalekh app is now available for iOS

It’s a hurray-moment for mobile users, who like to and take pride in typing in Indian languages. More so for such users, who use Apple devices – now that

October 05, 2017

Reverie Indic Calendar - A calendar which is truly Indian!

Calendar apps are ubiquitous. PCs, mobile phones, watches – calendars are everywhere. However, we have given an absolutely new meaning to the commonplace calendar apps on our mobile devices running Android

August 23, 2017

Encoding Standards Challenges for IS 16350

The efforts for the digital presence of Indian languages have been going over for more than two decades now and still the Indic presence is less than 0.01% over

July 18, 2017

Tribute to Dr. Ramanath Sahai

Our communal tribute to Dr. Ramanath Sahai When we at Reverie started working on Machine Translation earlier this year, we knew it would be highly complex but we had no

May 25, 2017

Why Reverie fonts stand out in the industry

Author: S K Mohanty, Co- Founder & Chief Font Design Architect at Reverie Language Technologies. Mobile phones have become part of our lives without which most of us feel handicapped

February 27, 2017

Ziox Mobile partners with Reverie Language Technologies

Bengaluru and Delhi, February 27, 2017: Targeting regional language users with their latest mobile phones, Ziox Mobile, one of the youngest mobile companies in India has partnered with Reverie Language

February 18, 2017

Visual Design with Indic Languages: First steps

I have been using Photoshop since my school days after my brother introduced me to it. Its been 9 years since then and I’ve just turned 23

January 26, 2017

Designing Swalekh – Our Multilingual Keyboard For 22 Indian Languages

Now a days, there are many multilingual keyboards available on Google Play Store. Most of them are available with good UIs, adjustable font sizes, color ranges, themes and other personalization

January 21, 2017

Zen Mobile thinks local for big gains with Reverie’s regional language capabilities

Bengaluru & Delhi, January 21, 2017: Understanding the need for providing its devices in local languages for its Indian customers, Zen Mobile, pioneers in bringing the affordable mobile handsets

January 05, 2017

What you need to know today about Indic website search

Internet penetration in India rose to 34.8% in the year 2016 compared to 27% in 2015. Businesses with an online presence, who initially catered to English-only audience, responded

December 21, 2016

Reverie’s Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip Named the Best Utility App in the 2016 Silicon Valley Business App Awards

Bangalore, Karnataka — December 21, 2016 – Reverie’s Indic Keyboard Swalekh Flip has been announced as the ‘Best Utility App’ in the 2016 Silicon Valley Business App Awards (SVBA) sponsored by

December 14, 2016

Is the Indian hyperlocal industry really (hyper)local?

The Indian hyperlocal industry is gaining prominence for all the right reasons. What started with Zomato, BigBasket and UrbanClap, roughly around 2010, is all set to exceed Rs. 2300 crores

December 06, 2016

My experiments on designing an image with Indic language text

I have always found languages alluring. To me, they are mysterious and beautiful. I often find myself pondering over their origins to the point of wondering about what led to

November 26, 2016

Why the Indian digital classifieds industry has to step up its language localization game

While the term 'Classified Advertising’ might seem like a modern term, you would be surprised to know that outdoor advertising has been in vogue for about 4,000 years now

November 19, 2016

Comparison of Indic language keypads

Author: Karthik Malli Impressed by some of his work on Indian scripts, we at Reverie Language Technologies reached out to Karthik Malli, a language enthusiast, to find out if

November 12, 2016

Is a multilingual Digital India campaign required for its success?

The Digital India campaign was launched by the Government of India in 2015. Its primary objective is to provide government services to Indian citizens digitally by connecting rural India with

November 05, 2016

Language equality on the Indian Internet. How do we achieve it?

At Reverie Language Technologies, irrespective of who we are, where we are from, and the job positions we hold, we all work towards achieving the same goal with singular focus