Few hours ago Google launched a tool to convert the script of any webpage into your desired language script. Google learnt that many people know a language but cannot read the script in which it is written. For example you might be knowing Hindi but does not know how to comprehend the ‘Devnagri’ script. In such a case, you can use Google’s ‘Script Converter’ to transliterate (convert to a phonetic equivalent) the text on any webpage into your preferred language script.

Script Converter currently supports inter-transliteration between 17 languages: Bengali, English, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The tool is good for casual transliteration purposes but must not be used solely if you wish to learn a certain language script. It still needs to be tweaked on a large scale; especially for Indic scripts.

Google Script Converter