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In a major boost to regional languages, the Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Mr.Dayanidhi Maran, has announced fonts for the scripts of all 22 official languages in the country on computers in eight to ten months.
He announced this on the occasion of the release of free Telugu software tools and fonts developed by the Centre for Development of Advancement Computing (C-DAC). Fonts for Hindi, Tamil and Telugu were already made available. More local language content in the software and easy access to broadband forms a part of this new strategy. He said the government is ready to provide the Indian languages free fonts and word processors, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems, speech interfaces for systems, internet access tools and translation systems and tools among Indian languages and English.
The department has also decided to provide these tools free of cost to people. The department has decided to aggregate collection of tools and fonts for each language developed by C-DAC and other collaborators from private and public sector
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