KeyPoint Technologies Announces India's First Soft Keyboard on Android Devices That Supports 36 Major Indic Languages

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KeyPoint Technologies Announces India's First Soft Keyboard on Android Devices That Supports 36 Major Indic Languages

HYDERABAD, India, March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

    KeyPoint Technologies, world leader in linguistics and user-interface technology, has
introduced India's first Indic keyboard, Lipi, on Android devices. Lipi supports 25 major
Indic languages and 11 transliterated languages like Hinglish, Marathinglish, Punglish,
Banglish, etc., which will empower local audience to communicate in their preferred
dialect.

    To download Lipi free of cost, visit
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kpt.adaptxt.lipi. Lipi will be
available to users in India free of cost for a limited period.

    KeyPoint Technologies' flagship product, Adaptxt, is used by more than one million
users worldwide and supports 100 global languages and 45 domain specific dictionaries.
Adaptxt is available for download on Android and iOS devices as well as third and fourth
generation Amazon Fire tablets.

    "With Lipi we are making technology and innovation accessible to larger sections of
the Indian population," said Sumit Goswami, CEO of KeyPoint Technologies. "Acceptance and
use of local languages on a large scale is a key element for Internet adoption in India.
Although India is still at a nascent stage, it is one of the largest markets for
vernacular content over smart devices."

    "KeyPoint Technologies understands that localized tools are critical and helps OEMs to
aggressively increase smartphone penetration in tier-two and tier-three markets, where
users typically communicate in multiple regional languages. Localization is a cultural
adaptation of an entire product to serve the needs and taste of users in a specific
region. It is just not about a keyboard but the entire user-experience around Indic
languages."

    According to TRAI report
[http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/quarterly%20press%20release%20-final.pdf ]
less than 30 percent of the Indian population is estimated to be fluent or
comfortable in English. Hence, there is an opportunity to tap a wider user-base in a
variety of vernacular languages to aid users' comprehension and increase their comfort
factor.

    About Adaptxt, a KeyPoint Technologies Innovation

    KeyPoint Technologies, the creator of Adaptxt, is an award-winning global linguistics
innovator that enables intelligent communication between humans to the connected world,
beyond mobile devices. KeyPoint was founded in 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland, an epicenter of
linguistics. The company has additional offices in India, Japan, China and the U.S., and
is a trusted partner for OEMs, platform providers and developers. Adaptxt is a
revolutionary text input application that represents the leading use of predictive
computer input technology in the market today.

    For more information visit: http://www.keypoint-tech.com
For Adaptxt updates visit: http://www.adaptxt.com
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    Adaptxt is a registered trademark of KeyPoint Technologies, Ltd. All other registered
or unregistered trademarks are sole property of their respective owners.

       
        Media Contact
        Suchitra Anish
        asuchitra@keypoint-tech.com
        +91-9980137245
        KeyPoint Technologies

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