Tis the Season for T9!

 

Tis the Season for T9!

The holidays are finally here, and what better way to spread the holiday cheer with a text message to your friends and family! People around the world are sending greetings via email, IM and SMS mobile messaging, and with Nuance's T9® Text Input it's easy, with support for upwards of 75 languages worldwide on a broad range of handsets.
 
T9 is the industry-leading predictive text solution enabling text-based mobile communications services, making mobile phone keypads easier to navigate by allowing for one simple key press per letter — placing the power of a full QWERTY keyboard in the standard nine keys on wireless phones. And with word completion and next word prediction, sending your friends and family warm holiday wishes becomes easier each time you hit send.

 

Holiday Language Listing for Translation of Happy Holidays

Wish your friends and family a Happy Holidays in a variety of languages this season!

  • Arabic: Kullu Sana wa Antum bi-Khayr
  • Russian: S Praznikom
  • Chinese (Simplified): jié rì kuài lè
  • Hindi: Chuttiyo Ki Shubh kaamnayein
  • Indonesian: Selamat Hari Raya
  • Portuguese: Festas Felizes
  • French: Joyeuses Fêtes
  • Spanish: Felices Fiestas
  • Swedish: Trevlig Helg
  • Turkish: Mutlu Bayramlar
  • Romanian: Sarbatori Fericite
  • Italian: Buone Feste
  • German: Frohe Feiertage
  • Dutch: Prettige feestdagen
  • Slovenian: Vesele Praznike
  • Croatian: Sretni praznici
  • Finnish: Hyvää Joulua (Good Christmas)
    and Onnellista Uutta Vuotta (Happy New Year)
  • Danish: Glade feriedage
  • Hebrew: Chag Same' ach
  • Quick and Easy
    Twice as fast as traditional "multi-tap" text entry, T9 Text Input allows users to quickly and easily type words on a mobile phone using just one key press per letter.
  • Adaptive Text Features
    T9 Text Input learns and automatically adapts to an individual's preferences and language patterns to provide the following capabilities:
    • Next word prediction
      Beyond predicting and completing words, T9 Text Input predicts entire phrases based on the phrases typed most often. Phrases such as "call me at home" can be entered with just a few keystrokes, helping users to type less while actually sending more messages.
    • Word order preferencing
      Adjusts the order of the words based on user preference and prior usage.
    • Enhanced word completion
      Allows users to more easily type in unique words, including chat phrases, email addresses and URLs.
    • User added words
      Allows the user to easily store and use favorite slang, abbreviations, codes and "emoticons."
  • Bilingual T9 Text Input
    T9 predictive text software now offers the ability to text in two languages simultaneously by providing word matches in two languages as selected by the user.
  • T9® Backup
    Allows users to back up their personalized T9® word database so that it can be transferred from one device to another.
  • Community Word Lists
    Supports the ability for mobile operators to create community or themed word lists. These word lists can be created around sports, music, movies, slang terms or any other topic and used in conjunction with marketing campaigns, events or to target specifi c customer segments. They can either be embedded on the device or made available for download.
  • Downloadable Languages
    Coverage for more than 65 languages. With downloadable languages, it's possible to provide additional language updates beyond what may be sold with the phone initially, customizing the phone for individual users' language needs and preferences.

To learn more about Nuance's T9 solutions, please visit http://www.nuance.com/t9/.

T9 Languages by Region

Basque
Catalan
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Icelandic
Irish
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Welsh

Albanian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Estonian
Hungarian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Turkish
Ukrainian

Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Hinglish
Kannada
Malayalam
Marathi
Punjabi
Sinhala
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu

Azerbaijani
Chinese
English
Georgian
Indonesian
Japanese
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Malay
Mongolian
Pashto
Tagalog
Thai
Turkmen
Uzbek
Vietnamese

Afrikaans
Amharic
Arabic
Hausa
Hebrew
Igbo
Sesotho
Swahili
Xhosa
Yoruba
Zulu

Spread the Holiday Cheer Even Further and Give Back with Text

In the giving spirit? Its easy to donate to many popular charities as more and more organizations tap into SMS text messaging as a means to contribute.
Support the American Red Cross Text2Help Initiative, a partnership between the American Red Cross and The Wireless Foundation that allows customers of participating wireless carriers to send a text message to the Red Cross and make a donation to support the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Subscribers of participating wireless carriers can donate $5 to American Red Cross disaster relief efforts simply by text messaging the keyword "GIVE" to "2HELP" (24357).
Give to the Richie-Madden Children's Foundation, dedicated to bringing meaningful opportunities to children in the U.S. and abroad, while also striving to bring light and laughter into their lives through unique entertainment and special events. By texting "CHILD" to 90999, you'll donate $5 to the fund.
Provide anti-malaria bed nets to those living in Africa through the UN Foundation's Nothing but Nets campaign. All you have to do is text "BEDNET" to 90999 to give your donation of $5.