Google says it is building the Indic web. Now they support transliteration in 5 languages — Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. I checked out their automatic English to Hindi translation. I typed “What is your name” and got back “kya aapkay naam” — not terribly impressive.
Atanu Dey : Life is a Random Draw 
Hi Atanu
For knowing the state of the art in English to Indian language translation, check out the Shakti system of IIIT (my almamater).
http://shakti.iiit.net/~shakti/index.html
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Seems like they’ve fixed that particular bug – I tried the same “What is your name?” and got the correct translation, but it failed when I tried another sentence in English.
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Heh – their translator is culturally optimized. I typed in “eat sh*t and die”. It translated it as “khaane aur marne paakhana” 🙂
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When James Bond movies were first presented with desified dialogues in India , any scene where Bond took a woman to bed , the standard dialogue would be :
Chalo, hum suhaag raat manayenge:)
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