Avro Keyboard 5.0.8

Avro Keyboard 5.0.8

Avro Keyboard was born in the 26th March, 2003 (The Independence Day of Bangladesh), bringing a new era in Bangla computing. It's flexible, gorgeous, feature rich, totally customizable, user friendly and already has a lot of typing automation tools that you have never imagined! Avro Keyboard, simply the Best Bangla Typing Software, breaks all old records, wipes out obstacles, rewrites history and recreates tradition!

The aim of this project is to add all popular Bangla typing methods from Bangladesh and India in a single interface. Current release supports English to Bangla Phonetic typing support for home users, mouse based Bangla typing support for newbies and for professionals traditional keyboard layout based Bangla typing support. Keyboard layouts those are added with the current release are - Probhat, Munir Optima, Avro Easy (an easy to learn keyboard layout from OmicronLab), Bornona (the easiest Bangla keyboard layout we have found yet! From "The Safeworks") and National (Jatiya) - Standard Bangla Keyboard Layout in Bangladesh designed by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). Please read below for details.

Features of Avro Keyboard :

English to Bangla Phonetic Typing :

Avro Keyboard supports most modern English to Bangla phonetic typing method. Write anywhere "ami banglay gan gai", it will be automatically typed -

Easiest transliteration scheme: We have researched through all present English to Bangla transliterating softwares and made our easiest transliteration scheme, both for memorizing and friendly typing speed.

Floating Preview Window: See on the fly how your English text is converting to Bangla!

Dictionary support: This English to Bangla phonetic typing method supports Dictionary with near about 150000 Bangla words and auto-correct feature. We have left the auto correct dictionary totally editable by the users. Add your own words, modify them anytime, and correct most common mistakes on the fly automatically!

Traditional Keyboard Layout Based Typing:

Bangla Typing with fixed keyboard layouts

Avro Keyboard supports traditional keyboard layout based Bangla typing. Get the most popular Bangla keyboard layouts in Bangladesh and India at hand!

Multiple Keyboard Layout Support: Avro Keyboard supports multiple keyboard layouts. And all the layouts are easily accessible from keyboard layout menu. Currently supported keyboard layouts are:
- Probhat
- Munir Optima
- Avro Easy - An easy to learn keyboard layout from OmicronLab.
- Bornona - The easiest Bangla keyboard layout we have found yet! From "The Safeworks"
- National (Jatiya) - Standard Bangla Keyboard Layout in Bangladesh designed by Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC)

Automatic Vowel Forming: Unleash your typing speed with this great algorithm. In a good number of cases, simply typing the kar/matra/short form of vowel will produce the full form of vowel automatically, there is no need to type the Link key. For detail information, please read the Documentations.
- This Automatic Vowel Forming can also be kept disabled from the Configuration dialog box.

Old Style “Reph”: Although in phonetic typing method Reph is typed at the beginning of a consonant, this may be seemed peculiar to the users (and it happened!). Avro Keyboard now uses the “auto Reph” feature, which will automatically move the Reph at the beginning of a consonant/"juktakkhor" (conjunct) when you type it at the end.
- This Old Style Reph can also be kept disabled from the Configuration dialog box.
Assamese Language Support: You can also type Assamese using all these keyboard layouts as necessary Assamese characters are placed here.

Easy Mouse Based Bangla Typing:

Type Bangla using Mouse! - Avro Keyboard

Easiest method made ever for typing Bangla! Use the full-featured on screen Bangla keyboard for your typing. Nothing to memorize, just click and type Bangla anywhere!

Assamese Language Support: You can also type Assamese using mouse as necessary Assamese characters are placed on the on-screen Bangla Keyboard.

Bangla spell checker:

Avro Keyboard comes with a handy Bangla spell checker. You can check spelling right inside MS Word. For spell checking on plain text, there is also Avro Pad.

Other Features :

Both Unicode and ANSI typing support:

From the very first release, Avro Keyboard is fully Unicode complaiant. From version 5.x, it also supports ANSI fonts (fonts comaptible with Bijoy 2000). With Unicode fonts, Avro Keyboard also comes with Siyam Rupali ANSI and Kalpurush ANSI fonts. Now Bangla typing works everywhere, from Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Word to Notepad.

Input Language/Input Locale support:

Whether or not your Windows supports Bangla (India), Bangla (Bangladesh) or Assamese language, with Avro Keyboard you can use them while typing in Bangla Keyboard mode. No kidding, we made it possible! Wherever you type, now your word processors know that you are typing in Bangla (or, Assamese)!! Get better spell check, auto correction and grammar check support with this feature.

Avro keyboard makes Bangla typing easier, no doubt... :)
Type anywhere:

Avro Keyboard works as a system level keyboard interface. You can type Bangla anywhere with all typing methods (English to Bangla phonetic typing, keyboard layout based typing, mouse based typing) supported by Avro Keyboard.

Examples:

While surfing on the net, directly type Bangla to your browser. This adds possibility for Searching web in Bangla using Google, or posting something in Bangla at websites.

While chatting, use Bangla in MSN & Yahoo messenger, no extra plug-in required.

At office, make your MS Word Documents or Excel spreadsheets in Bangla!

At communication, send and receive Bangla emails. With Avro Keyboard it is even possible to use web mails!

At development, create Bangla web pages using FrontPage or other HTML editors. Create 100% searchable and sort able Bangla database systems using MS Access 2000 or later, MS SQL Server 2000 or later, or even with MySQL!

Flexible Interface:

Avro Keyboard offers much flexible user interface for even novice computer users. It is much better than Windows Input Locale as there is no necessary to edit your system language from control panel. Users can use Avro Keyboard and any other keyboard in any language defined in control panel simultaneously. It is possible to use Hindi, US English, UK English, Japanese, French etc. any language as system language and Avro Keyboard to use Bangla/Bengali. When Avro Keyboard is "System Default" mode, users are able to use their system language, when in "Bangla Keyboard" mode, no matter which language is active in the system, only Bangla typing is possible.

Two User Interface Modes:

Most Bangla typing softwares offer only system tray based keyboard interface for users. Here Avro Keyboard has two different and full functional interfaces - Top Bar on Desktop, Icon on system tray. Users are at liberty to use any mode which suits his best. Even more, the Top Bar is able to appear as semi-transparent when inactive so that you can see behind it!

Customizable Mode Switching (Single key/Key combination):

You can use "Single Key Mode Switching" by using any one key from F1 to F12 to switch between Bangla keyboard mode and System Keyboard mode.There is also Ctrl+Spcae key combination option. Use what you like.

Automatic Keyboard mode and Input Language Tracking:

Just like Windows keyboard management, Avro Keyboard is able to track the keyboard modes (System Default / Bangla) among all applications. And from version 3.0.0, Avro Keyboard not only tracks keyboard modes, but also all Languages you are using. Type Hebrew in Notepad, Arabic in WordPad, or French & Spanish in MS Word, whenever you type Bangla in them, your previous Language is automatically recorded. When you go again in System Default keyboard mode, Avro Keyboard never mess things up, it will correctly restore all languages (e.g. Hebrew in Notepad or Arabic in WordPad etc.).

Layout Viewer:

This is a must have feature for any virtual keyboard interface like Avro keyboard. But all including Microsoft seem to overlook it. With this handy tool, users can see the actual image of the current keyboard layout anytime they need. Now there is no need to print or draw a keyboard layout and attach it on your computer table. This keyboard layout viewer is totally flexible, you can use Zoom-in and Zoom-out for better viewing purpose. Even more, this Layout Viewer can be configured to come up automatically in Bangla mode and disappear again in System Keyboard mode, nice choice when you are learning a new keyboard layout!

Totally customizable:

Users have different choices and needs. Avro Keyboard is built for all of them. Ins and outs every feature of Avro Keyboard can be customized!

Benefit List :

English and Bangla typing in the same font: Open type fonts (OTF) allow you to type Bangla and English in the same font. You only have to change the keyboard mode.

Bangla searching/sorting: UNICODE standard Bangla typing allows you to search/sort Bangla texts in accurate way without any hassle. Extremely useful when you are working in spreadsheet or database application.

Faster Bangla typing: Like older methods of Bangla typing, you don't have to change the fonts every time you change keyboard between Bangla and English. Again, for using some matra/kar/short form of Bangla vowels like "o-kar", "ou-kar", you can use only one key to type them. These features have made Avro Keyboard as a perfect choice for professional typists for Bangla typing.

Phonetic Bangla typing: Bangla typing gets its most modern form in Avro keyboard. Instead of using symbolic typing like old mechanical type writers, you can use easy phonetic typing method. Bangla typing is no longer a nightmare!!

Bangla email: Outlook Express and other email clients those support UNICODE, let you mail in Bangla using Avro keyboard.

Bangla chat/ Bangla instant messaging: Some instant messengers like MSN Messenger allow you to chat in Bangla. With Avro keyboard, you can even type Bangla and English in a single sentence in MSN Messenger. There is even no need to use any extra plug-in!

Bangla database: Any UNICODE supported database systems like MS Access 2000 or later, MS SQL Server 2000 or later, MySQL will let you create full functional and 100% searching and sorting enabled Bangla database with Avro Keyboard.

Bangla font compatibility: Avro Keyboard is compatible with any UNICODE supported Bangla font. Even if you cannot afford to buy some commercial/shareware UNICODE compliant Bangla typing software, you can install the fonts of that software and use them with Avro Keyboard for Bangla typing.

Spell check never mess things up!: As Avro Keyboard supports Input Language/Input Locale changing for Bangla (India), Bangla (Bangladesh) and Assamese, the editors (Like MS Word) you use to type Bangla can detect which is Bangla text and which is not. Now MS Word never try to check spell of your Bangla text using the default English dictionary!

Auto correction in MS Word: You can safely turn on the auto correction feature in MS Word when typing Bangla with Avro keyboard. Your texts will never be changed to any alien characters. Now MS Word knows that you are typing Bangla