Sampark Machine Translation (Sampark MT) System, designed and developed by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H)-ed consortium, offers online translation between different pairs of Indian languages.
The system is designed to enable the internet users to translate the content from one language to another just with a mouse click.
Sampark MT, billed as the first software application for instant translation in Indian languages, can currently translate four Indian languages, and it would go up to 18 different Indian languages.
The four languages now offered are Hindi-Punjabi, Punjabi-Hindi, Urdu-Hindi and Telugu-Tamil. IIIT-H would launch the machine translation system for internet users on March 30 at the ongoing 20th World Wide Web conference here.
The project, named as ‘Sampark: Machine Translation among Indian Languages (Experimental Version)’ is funded by TDIL Program, department of information technology, Union government, and developed by consortium of institutions, including IISc-Banglore, CDAC (Noida, Pune), Anna University, Chennai, University of Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, Tamil University, IIIT Allahabad and Jadavpur University.
