See what the World Wide Web has got to offer as it celebrates 20 years of existence. You can translate one Indian language to another instantaneously using an Web interface.

Besides, helping people to translate texts of different languages, the solution is expected to drive content generation on the Web sphere.

Launched by the former President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, here on Wednesday at the WWW conference, Sampark MT (Machine Translation) has ambitious task of offering Web-based translation services to 18 Indian languages.

To begin with, the Government of India-sponsored programme is being offered in a few languages over the Internet. Using this, people can text translations from Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu, Urdu and English to Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjab, Tamil and Urdu.

The project is being taken up by a consortium of academic and research institutes across the country.

Earlier, delivering a keynote at the conference on ‘Web for Societal Transformation', Mr Kalam said the challenge was to provide integrated 3G and 4G mobile applications in mother tongue of the users.

“Indian enterprises must become key agents of change in dispersing technology widely adopting the Internet-2 and Web 2.0 technologies. One important aspect is how rural business processing outlets can be enabled to work on Web 3.0,” he added.

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