Kanimozhi inaugurates Tamil software exhibition

Chennai: Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and Karunanidhi's daughter, inaugurated an exhibition of Tamil software developed by enthusiasts and software developers on July 4 in Chennai. It was organized by the Association of Tamil Computing to promote Tamil computing. The exhibition is also a prelude to the next Tamil Internet Conference (TIC) 2009 to be held in Germany.

TIC 2009 will be held at the Tamil Institute of the University of Cologne between October 23 and 25. The topics that are proposed for discussion at the conference include open source software and localization, Tamil enabling in mobile phones, OCR and voice recognition and Tamil Internet and social networking.

Educational and entertainment CDs from Softview and Dove multimedia were on display at the exhibition. Also seen was a demo stall of Learn Fun Systems. 'Handwriting Recognition Software', which was first released in 2006 for those who find it difficult to type in Tamil, attracted many. Alphabets written with a stylus on touch-screen or on tablet or with a mouse are recognized by a standard Tamil font.

Anto Peter, Director, Softview Technologies and an enthusiast in the field of Tamil computing said, “Tamil computing community is growing every year. This year the exhibition saw an overwhelming response from people. Many even visited along with their families.”

“Many IT companies await more initiatives from the government and more response from the crowd to aggressively enter the Tamil computing domain,” he concluded.