Google Indic Transliteration Now in Tamil

Google Indic Transliteration now available in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

Google Indic Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to the Tamil characters. This lets you type Tamil words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. Note that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. For example, typing "sangam" transliterates into Tamil as: