Typeit! Portable

Typeit! Portable is designed to help users opening or writing text documents straight into Malayalam language. This app also helps users translate text from other languages in Malayalam and vice versa.

This little translating program is pretty basic. It has a main window where the main text should be placed and comes with additional command buttons in the top bar that help users translate Malayalam text in various similar dialects, including English. Each of those options come with a drop-down menu that offer increased control over the text at hand.

The first thing this app does is import texts in Malayalam, and this is available right under the 'File' button. From there users can open files written in XTG or PAN format which are specially developed for this rather exotic language.

Afterward, users can immediately have the text translated in many other Malayalam dialects that are supported by the program using the same interface. Copying them in other programs like Word will result in corrupted text.

When users are done writing in Malayalam dialects they can later export the files in InDesign Tagged Text TXT and MTF file formats. These, however, cannot be opened by mainstream text editors but require similar Malayalam translating applications in order to show the text properly.

This being the portable version of Typeit! it doesn't need a previous setup process, and can easily be carried in a USB stick and work from any computer available.

Options-wise, all the extra settings the app offers are pretty basic. Users can change MTF and XTG font sizes and names, change the default unicode font and fiddle with the MBI export settings.

This is a very specialized app for Malayalam speakers in India. It has a very simple and comprehensive set of tools, and it offers great customization to change how the translating process takes place. It may be difficult for beginners to get the hang of it at first, but in time it can prove a very intuitive application to handle. The Malayalam language is one of the rarest dialects in Asia, and certainly a tool like this is useful for those who travel or do business in southern India.