17 August 2005

Translit: Transliteration Web Service for Microsoft® Office 2003 (free!)

www.latkey.com

Hate receiving emails from your friends written in Latin alphabet? Bored searching for a good translit engine? Not anymore!

Transliterating (decoding) email messages and text from English to Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and other non-Latin alphabets is now as easy as ABC!

Translit solution integrates into your Microsoft Office 2003 seamlessly. No need to install anything - just connect to our Latkey online translit service:

* In Outlook®, press F1 key
* Click task pane title bar
* Click Research menu item
* Click Research Options...
* Click Add Services
* Paste web service link: www.latkey.com
* Click Add button
* Configure service settings

And... hey, the service is free!



Select your email message text encoded in English characters (often referred to as Greeklish, Ruglish, Hebrish, Arabish, etc), right-click and choose Look Up command from the context menu (as shown on the top picture). This brings up Office Research Pane. Make sure you have (Latkey.com) Transliteration web service selected from the drop-down services list. This will transliterate English text into matching Cyrillic transliteration for the selected email message on the left.



Now insert Russian transliteration into your message body with one click only - push Insert Text button on Research Pane. This replaces the initial English text with the decoded Cyrillic phrases.

Benefits:

* Works in email Preview Pane
* Direct use from email
* Results preview & clipboard
* No download/installation
* No need for upgrades - always latest translit logic

Requirements:

* Microsoft Office 2003
* Internet connection