India among our top 3 markets: SwiftKey

SwiftKey, which is a part of software giant Microsoft, is witnessing strong uptake of its smartphone keyboard that has helped India become one of its top three markets.
"We are witnessing strong demand for our product in India. India is already among our top three markets in terms of users," SwiftKey co-founder and CEO Jon Reynolds told PTI.
He added that the growth has come not only from pre- embedding its keyboards on smartphones but also downloads.
"We are working with a number of OEMs (handset makers) in India. In addition to that, a large number of people are downloading our keyboard," he said.

Swiftkey's keyboard supports 22 official Indian languages, including Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
SwiftKey will also offer transliteration support for Indian languages like Punjabi, Marathi, Odia and Telugu.
Microsoft had acquired SwiftKey in February last year. At that time, it had said SwiftKey's keyboard applications was available on nearly 300 million Android and Apple devices.