Content Regionalization
Business Context Top Regional Websites Scope of Work Glimpses Industry Illustrations
Business Context Hindi is mother tongue of the nation 366 million first language users 121 million second language users 44% Internet users in India prefer Hindi as a language of use 25% Internet users prefer regional languages International example of regionalization – Baidu (Chinese search engine is the world’s 5 th highest visited site
Industry Illustrations - Telecom Acquisition Regional Bi lingual application forms Hoardings in local language Regional products Service Communication in preferred Language* (Bills/Service letters) SMS in various languages All service messages in three languages (Region, English and Hindi) Multi lingual IVRs (Region specific) Regional Content – Songs/ Videos/News English Marathi Hindi Vodafone Kiosk
Industry Illustrations - Banking Account opening forms Bi lingual forms English Hindi Marathi ATM Screens Website
Industry Illustrations - Insurance Website IRDA Communication Application forms Welcome kit Customer communica tion (Notice, Statements) Not all Multi lingual IVR Advertisem ents Website
Industry Illustrations - Observations There have been serious attempts to establish regional communication/ channels Multiple channels have been used and frequently accessed interface have been prioritized Regionalization framework is evolving – lack of holistic framework Technology and physical interface are being used Use of languages is localized in case of physical communication /Interface (Forms/letters) Industry riding on existing infrastructure – especially telecom Technological interface allows a central platform to all languages
LanguageWebsiteAlexa World ratingAlexa Indian rating HindiSongs.pk66353 TamilRaaga.com KannadaThatskannada.onei ndia.in GujaratiDivyabhaskar.co.in MalyalamManoramaonline.c om Top regional websites Regional websites in India are amongst top 500 websites in the country
Scope of Work Hindi translation and unicode conversion of 201 pages Supporting in translation and transliteration strategy/ vocabulary Modules/pages impacted Personal banking Accounts and deposits Loans, cards Online and Insta Banking Safe banking and others
Modules Illustration of Transliteration Glimpses – icicibank.com/hindi
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